Inside the Hospital–Radiology Contract of the Future

Contracts between hospitals and radiology groups are evolving to reflect the shifting requirements of health care—and both parties can expect to continue to...

Six Steps to Improving Patient Satisfaction

Patient satisfaction is often misunderstood by health-care providers, according to William R. Johnson, CRA, MBA, RT, system director of patient experience with Memorial Health...

Four Deal-breakers in Hospital Imaging Transactions and How to Avoid Them

When the hospital is the buying party in an imaging joint venture, there are four potential issues that could terminate the transaction, all of...

Change the Conversation

Here’s a confession: Though a bit of a snob about most of what’s on television these days, I’m obsessed with AMCâ€...

Appropriateness and the ACO: How Radiology Can Position Itself to Lead

Radiology groups’ conversations with their hospital partners are undergoing an evolution, in the experience of Edward Rittweger, MD, president of Navesink Radiology (Red Bank,...

The Growth Paradox: How Should Radiologists’ Behavior Be Rewarded?

All over the country, radiology practices are merging, consolidating, and forming networks in order to grow in size and, in theory, negotiate from a...

Using Analytics to Achieve Strategic Goals: Quantum Imaging & Therapeutic Associates

Clinical analytics for radiology can play a critical strategic role in practice development and growth, but only if the approach to aggregating and sharing...

Perspectives on Quality

In the last issue of RadAnalytics, I wrote about productivity and efficiency, with an...

From Quality to Outcomes: Deploying Clinical Analytics

Although radiology has employed clinical analytics for more than a decade, the field is in its infancy. Nonetheless, the possibilities are tantalizing—if technological,...

Radiology’s ACO Play: Get in the Game—Now

The ACO, a relatively new concept that met with great skepticism when it appeared in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now ranks...

Radiologist As Gatekeeper, Part I

For at least a dozen years, radiology has played a cat-and-mouse game with the notion of assuming a more active role in determining which...