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Automating Management of Critical Results

When Jane Wheatley, CEO of Taylor Regional Hospital, Campbellsville, Kentucky, needed to make a decision regarding her facility’s handling of radiology services

ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 22, 2009

JAMA Article Slams Mammography: At What Cost?

When JAMA published an opinion piece1 in October 2009 questioning the effectiveness of mammography screening and calling for new screening protocols to separate life-threatening cancers from less harmful lesions, the mammography community reacted with alarm.

Radiology Business Journal, December 01, 2009

24/7 Coverage: The New Norm

Teleradiology has reshaped the delivery of imaging services across the board, but it has had a particularly strong impact on around-the-clock coverage.

Radiology Business Journal, October 01, 2009

Contract Research Organizations: Radiology’s Newest Revenue Stream

Pharmaceutical and device makers’ use of imaging for research is providing a new outlet for radiologists’ services.

Radiology Business Journal, September 10, 2009

The Reality of Digital Mammography: How Digital Are You?

Digital mammograms are now being delivered at more than 50% of the mammography sites in the nation.

Radiology Business Journal, September 10, 2009

The ASTRO Survey: Proposed 20% to 30% Cuts Would Devastate Radiation Oncology

Medicare has proposed a 19% overall reimbursement cut for radiation oncology

Radiology Business Journal, September 10, 2009

Vertical Integration of Outpatient Cancer Care

With quality and efficiency driving the trend toward vertically integrated cancer care, outpatient imaging providers must find new ways to integrate into the delivery model or risk being sidelined

Radiology Business Journal, September 09, 2009

Keeping Country Radiology Cool

A rising tide lifts all boats, as the saying goes, and thanks to the hastening deployment of subspecialty teleradiology, some of the smallest imaging-department boats are riding high.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 15, 2009

Turf Versus Merit: St. Luke’s Centralizes Breast Care

Hospitals do not cede turf easily to competitors, even within the collegial environment of a multisite system. That, however, is precisely what had to happen before St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network, Bethlehem, Pa, could centralize breast care among its four hospitals and six outpatient imaging sites in a regional diagnostic breast-imaging center.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, May 15, 2009

Marketing and Wellness Initiatives

Building a profitable breast imaging service entails deploying the right technology for a multimodality approach, effectively triaging high-risk women, and taking great overall care of the CEOs of family health

Radiology Business Journal, May 01, 2009

Premium Ultrasound Dressed Up and Ready for Its Close-up

New applications made possible by improved transducer technology and system software are having an impact on radiologists’ practice patterns

Radiology Business Journal, May 01, 2009

Building a Turnkey Women’s Imaging Service

Building a profitable breast imaging service entails deploying the right technology for a multimodality approach, effectively triaging high-risk women, and taking great overall care of the CEOs of family health

Radiology Business Journal, May 01, 2009

F&S Chair Frank Seidelmann, D.O.: On the Radiologist of the Future

Frank Seidelmann, D.O., is cofounder and chair of Franklin and Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology, Beachwood, Ohio.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, April 15, 2009

Standardizing Mammographic Workflow and Interpretation

The passage of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA) ushered in a new era in breast imaging.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, March 15, 2009

The CCTA Playbook: A Guide to Coding, Reimbursement, and Operations

A compendium of the business intelligence required to launch a CCTA service

Radiology Business Journal, March 01, 2009

Day for Night, East for West

Teleradiology permeates the specialty as practices cross state, regional, and global boundaries to purchase and practice radiology

Radiology Business Journal, March 01, 2009

CCTA Standards and Turf

Turf questions have always surrounded the provision and interpretation of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies.

Radiology Business Journal, March 01, 2009

Adding a CCTA Program: Economic Benefits of Outsourcing

Adding a coronary CT angiography (CCTA) program to your emergency department can help save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by reducing unnecessary admissions and mitigating the medicolegal expenses resulting from misdiagnoses.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2009

Lossless and Lossy: Study Supports Compression of Mammograms

Compression of images is not an alien concept in radiology.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 15, 2008

ACR White Paper: CCTA Structured Reporting

A group of luminary practitioners of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) penned a white paper&sup1: to guide readers of CCTA in structured reporting for the modality.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 15, 2008

CCTA: Radiology Prepares

Though expertise and reimbursement lag, many radiology practices gear up to perform their share of a potential 20 million procedures a year

Radiology Business Journal, September 01, 2008

Detangling Teleradiology in Private Practice

Only a Web-based, thin-client system should be considered by teleradiology providers, according to J. Raymond Geis, MD. It is also vital, Geis says, to make all information available on the Web and to save all data in a searchable form.

Radiology Business Journal, September 01, 2008

Outpatient IR Centers of Excellence: Trends in Practice Expansion

An older medical oncology patient had undergone the paracentesis procedure once before at a hospital.

Radiology Business Journal, September 01, 2008

MQSA: Numerically Speaking

Though the population of women over 40 is on the rise, the number of mammography facilities fully certified in compliance with the provisions of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) has declined slightly over the past five years.

Radiology Business Journal, June 15, 2008

The Rise of Vertically Integrated Women’s Imaging

Providing the full continuum of breast care earns the loyalty of the all-important female health care consumer, considerable downstream imaging, and the mammography annuity

Radiology Business Journal, June 15, 2008

Coronary MR Angiography: Can It Compete With Multidetector CT?

Just five years ago, the thought of cardiac cross-sectional imaging turned immediately toward the potential of MRI for evaluation of the heart.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 12, 2008

How I Do It: Imaging Pulmonary Hypertension in Pediatric Patients Using CT Angiography

Pulmonary hypertension is a complex process affecting pulmonary and cardiac functions.

Radinformatics, May 15, 2008

The Role of CCTA in Primary Care

Primary care physicians are increasingly referring patients for coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to provide accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) and earlier disease management for their patients.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, May 15, 2008

CCTA: The Road to Acceptance

The advancement of imaging technology is invariably followed by a host of related challenges.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, May 15, 2008

Taking Charge of FFDM Workflow

Radiographic mammography can be difficult to interpret, and radiologists who read mammograms rely on prior studies to guide them.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, April 15, 2008

NightHawk Radiology: Trojan Horse or Saving Grace?

No one has played a greater role in transforming practice patterns in radiology than Paul S. Berger, MD.

Radiology Business Journal, March 15, 2008

Strategic Information-technology Deployment

In my 25 years of information technology management in four completely different industries (distribution, agricultural biotechnology, process manufacturing, and now health care).

Radiology Business Journal, March 15, 2008

Ron Hosenfeld and RivRad: Building an Effective Distributed Reading Solution

The road to a distributed reading model is paved with WAN accelerators, DICOM gateways, and sleepless nights, to hear one practice CIO describe it.

Radinformatics, February 15, 2008

Optimizing Coronary CTA Workflow: How We Do It

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) provides an accurate evaluation of coronary-artery disease and coronary-artery anomalies, and it gives us the ability to evaluate the cardiac chambers, myocardium, and valves.

Radinformatics, February 15, 2008

UltraClinics: Same-day Cancer Diagnosis in Search of a Market

UltraClinics, Inc, is a company prepared to offer same-day interpretation of breast-biopsy tissue and, if needed, teleoncology consultation for women undergoing breast-cancer screening.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2008

Get Over the Guilt: Leverage Teleradiology to Improve Hospital Service

Teleradiology has come a long way from its origins in the 1980s, when physicians would snap a photo of a film and transmit the image across telephone lines.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2008

CXOFiles No.6 Alliance Imaging’s Paul S. Viviano: Master of Diversification

When Paul S. Viviano, joined Alliance Imaging in January of 2003, the company was almost exclusively a mobile MRI vendor.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 15, 2007

Share and Share Alike? Split Interpretations Pose a Challenge to Radiologists.

As if radiologists were not facing sufficient challenges of late, they now are seeing increasing interest from cardiologists seeking to promote the sharing of certain studies.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 15, 2007

Breast Imaging Paradox: It’s About the Annuity

In 2002, Norwalk Radiology—like many radiology practices across the nation—reached a crossroads.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 15, 2007

CXOFiles No.5 Marinaccio Leads Nassau Group in Latest Growth Spurt

One would think a metropolitan radiology practice that is 100% dependant on the outpatient market for all income would be at a competitive disadvantage in this post-DRA marketplace.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, September 15, 2007

Street Scan:  Hologic Buys Cytyc and a Foot in the OB/GYN Door

With its announcement that it would buy Cytyc, Marlborough, Mass, for $6.2 billion, Hologic Inc, Bedford, Mass, broadens its position in the women’s health care market and buys access to its gatekeeper.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 12, 2007

Breast MRI: An Imaging Center Opportunity to Raise Bar of Care

New guidelines from the American Cancer Society [1] recommending annual breast MRI for high-risk women are expected to result in significantly expanded demand for the study.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 12, 2007

Q & A with Daniel D. Maki, MD:  A Very Good Month for Breast MRI

March initiated what could be a sea change in the diagnosis of breast cancer in high-risk women, with results of a breast MR study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and, in the same week, new guidelines issued from the American Cancer Society (ACS) that recommended breast MR as a screening tool for high-risk women.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, April 15, 2007

First, Do No Harm

The past few weeks have witnessed some rather remarkable national press reports about this marvelous profession that is the broad field of diagnostic imaging.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, April 15, 2007

Squeezing Blood from a Turnip

There are several reasons to offer mammography in a freestanding imaging center, although profits are not usually one of them.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, November 15, 2006

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