Subspecialization and Teleradiology: An Uneasy Alliance

November 28, 2011 | Feature

Why would orthopedic surgeons bypass a nearby hospital or imaging center when referring patients? If they happened to be in the Midwest, they might prefer the subspecialized interpretations offered by Linda L. Dew, MD, FRCPC. After more than two decades as a practicing radiologist, Dew has developed expertise in... Read More »

Radisphere National Radiology Group Launches

April 12, 2010 | Quality

To further its aim of extending subspecialty radiology services to community hospitals, Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology, Beachwood, Ohio, recently announced the creation of a new company called Radisphere National Radiology Group. True to its name, the group will have a national scope, with the ability to provide radiology... Read More »

From Here to Eternity: Extending the Franchise Through Distributed-reading Solutions

February 24, 2010 | Feature

Few developments in radiology have been more productive (or disruptive) than the advent of PACS. To PACS, radiology owes its ability to increase productivity dramatically during the past 10 years, thereby conserving income levels at a time of diminishing reimbursement. To PACS, radiology also owes the very real threat of... Read More »

Automating Management of Critical Results

December 22, 2009 | Quality

When Jane Wheatley, CEO of Taylor Regional Hospital, Campbellsville, Kentucky, needed to make a decision regarding her facility’s handling of radiology services, she had two imperatives in mind: cost and quality. After the hospital’s radiology group disbanded in the early 2000s, the 90-bed acute care center contracted... Read More »

24/7 Coverage: The New Norm

October 02, 2009 | Feature

Teleradiology has reshaped the delivery of imaging services across the board, but it has had a particularly strong impact on around-the-clock coverage. Hospitals are demanding 24/7 imaging service as the expected level of patient care, partly because an attentive emergency department generates business in surgical suites and elsewhere. Even for... Read More »

Keeping Country Radiology Cool

June 15, 2009 | A Better Mousetrap

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. This is good news for patients in rural areas, who can now stick with their local hospitals for their imaging needs.... Read More »

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

April 15, 2009 | CXO Files

Frank Seidelmann, D.O., is cofounder and chair of Franklin and Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology, Beachwood, Ohio. After bearing witness to countless imaging booms and busts over the course of 30-plus years in the field, Seidelmann looks to subspecialization as the trend that will change the face of radiology as... Read More »

Day for Night, East for West

March 01, 2009 | Feature

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

How did a 2000 lecture tour in China spawn a teleradiology revolution? For William G. Bradley, MD, PhD, FACR, the idea for an international business evolved from a reading that he... Read More »

Detangling Teleradiology in Private Practice

September 01, 2008 | Governance

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. These requirements apply to more than images and reports;... Read More »

NightHawk Radiology: Trojan Horse or Saving Grace?

March 15, 2008 | Newsmakers

No one has played a greater role in transforming practice patterns in radiology than Paul S. Berger, MD. As the founder and CEO of NightHawk Radiology, Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, Berger launched the company that not only dramatically improved the sleep patterns of US radiologists, but also ushered in... Read More »

Strategic Information-technology Deployment

March 15, 2008 | Strategic Planning

In my 25 years of informationtechnology management in four completely different industries (distribution, agricultural biotechnology, process manufacturing, and now health care), I have found that if information technology is considered a strategic resource, rather than purely a costsaving resource, the system’s efforts will be more likely to succeed.

Ron Hosenfeld and RivRad: Building an Effective Distributed Reading Solution

February 16, 2008 | Planning Portal

The road to a distributed reading model is paved with WAN accelerators, DICOM gateways, and sleepless nights, to hear one practice CIO describe it. Nonetheless, three and a half years after he began building a distributed reading solution to support the subspecialty reading model of Columbus, Ohio-based Riverside Radiology,... Read More »

Get Over the Guilt: Leverage Teleradiology to Improve Hospital Service

January 15, 2008 | Quality

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. Remote review, once a last-resort option, is now a commonplace service employed by hospitals and practices alike to handle stat cases... Read More »