Women's Imaging

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Lossless and Lossy: Study Supports Compression of Mammograms

Compression of images is not an alien concept in radiology.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 15, 2008

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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