Diagnosing Dementing Disease: A Neurologist’s QI Wish List

Imaging can play a valuable role in the early diagnosis of dementing disease. In a special-interest session held on November 26, 2012, at the annual meeting...

Is It Worth It? Radiology and Comparative-effectiveness Research

Imaging is increasingly pervasive in modern medicine; according to a 2011 study¹ published in Radiology, the use of CT scans in emergency-department visits has...

Subspecialization and Teleradiology: An Uneasy Alliance

Why would orthopedic surgeons bypass a nearby hospital or imaging center when referring patients? If they happened to be in the Midwest, they might...

Breast Tomosynthesis: How I Read It

Now that digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has gained FDA approval, many breast-imaging providers find themselves excited about the new technology, but facing uncertainty about...

Quantifying Interventional Radiology’s Tangible Value

In recent years, interventional radiologists have had an easier time with the long-standing challenge of impressing their diagnostic colleagues with the intangible worth of...

The Lure and the Legend of Office-based Interventional Radiology

By the nature of their subspecialty, interventional radiologists are enamored of innovations that engender emerging minimally invasive therapies, and the 2011 annual meeting of the...

Breast MRI:How I Read It

Breast MRI has emerged as a powerful new tool in the fight against breast cancer. It has found wide acceptance in the past 10 years,...

Breast-center Care Anywhere: Bringing Subspecialty Expertise to the Rural United States

Accessing high-quality radiology services in rural areas of the United States always represents a challenge, and nowhere is this dilemma more poignant to both...

Sharks in the Case Pool: Teleradiology, the Practice, and the Purveyor

Wilson Wong, MD, was there when teleradiology took off, almost 15 years ago. Back then, there was a radiologist shortage, and Wong saw a way...

Future Trends in Clinical-trial Imaging

This is the final article in a series of three providing a primer for radiologists and imaging professionals interested in clinical trials.

Radiology and the Heart

Cardiology and radiology: Are they two specialties working in tandem for optimal patient care or two opposing armies in a turf battle? The answer,...

NLST Proves Lives Can Be Saved: Now Comes the Difficult Step of Implementation

One of the most extensive and ambitious medical-screening trials in US has been stopped. It’s because of good news: Low-dose helical CT (LDCT)...

Achieving Certification

Primary stroke center certification by the Joint Commission is based broadly on three components: standards, guidelines, and performance measures. Under the umbrella of components...

Saving Brain: Building the LA Stroke Network

In Los Angeles County, a 4,752–square-mile urban–suburban sprawl that is home to an estimated 10 million people, no one knows exactly how many acute...

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

For many years, hospitals and physician practices have engaged with payors in a little game we play in a free market society called “negotiation.” This game enables the players to use whatever tools and stratagems they possess to leverage as good a price possible for their services/business in an increasingly price-conscious marketplace. On the provider side, good means high, and on the payor side, good means low. Providers might negotiate from a position

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Lena Kauffman
Good Patient Communication Matters, So Why is it So Hard?

Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle
Video: Influence and Leadership

Harley J Hammerman, MD
A Radiologist Swings Back on Escalating Health Care Costs

Steve Smith
It Takes Will to Fight Commoditization

Cat Vasko
When Bigger Isn’t Better

Cheryl Proval
The Jig is Up

Shortage of Radiation Oncologists Predicted

An article by Smith et al,¹ published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, forecasts an impending shortage of radiation oncologists, suggesting that...

Imaging in Clinical Trials: Endpoints, Biomarkers, and Methods

This article is the second in a series of three providing a background and primer to radiologists and imaging professionals interested in clinical trials....

Mammography’s Crisis Offers Opportunity, Too

Michael N. Linver, MD, FACR, is committed to mammography screening to detect breast cancer—what he calls screening’s role in saving women’s...

Breast Cancer: The Case for the Radiologist-centered Diagnostic Paradigm

As the diagnostic work-up for breast cancer has become more complex, often involving multiple imaging modalities, the surgeon-centered diagnostic paradigm in breast care has...

Novel Biomarker Rivals SAP in Amyloid Imaging Using SPECT/CT

The winning entry, left, in a recent vendor-sponsored preclinical- imaging competition presented at the World Molecular Imaging Conference in Kyoto, Japan, compared the amyloid-binding efficacy...

Keeping Radiology on the Cutting Edge

Over the past two decades, imaging has undergone revolutionary and evolutionary changes in both the clinical and nonclinical spheres. Part of this evolution has...

Subspecialty Radiology: Beyond the Debate

The question of whether general radiology is on the path to obsolescence has sparked considerable debate in recent years, with much of the controversy...

The Road to Acceptance: CCTA for Chest Pain in the ED

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) could be radiology’s most notorious underperformer. As the number of CT detectors increased from one to 256 and beyond, as...

Innovation From the Outside In: Olivia Ho Cheng, CEO of Aurora

Olivia Ho Cheng, CEO

Olivia Ho Cheng, CEO of Aurora Imaging Technology Inc<...

The Cosmetic Frontier: BOTOX and Beyond

According to data¹ from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States has...

Building an Efficient, Effective Women’s Imaging Service

Ask providers of women’s imaging services why they stick with the niche, in spite of declining reimbursement and the risk of malpractice suits,...

Radisphere National Radiology Group Launches

To further its aim of extending subspecialty radiology services to community hospitals, Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology, Beachwood, Ohio, recently announced the creation of...

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

Few developments in radiology have been more productive (or disruptive) than the advent of PACS. To PACS, radiology owes its ability to increase productivity...

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, she...

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...

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