Ahead in the Cloud: Imaging Cloud Applications and Ideas

The data-intensive nature of radiology has long kept the specialty on the cutting edge of IT. That’s why cloud computing is a relatively...

What Is a Radiology Practice?

Every year, when we produce the ranking of the nation’s largest private practices, we are reminded of the contributions that radiology makes—not...

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...

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...

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...

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. Hospitals are...

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...

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. After bearing witness to countless imaging booms and...

Day for Night, East for West

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

How did a 2000 lecture tour...

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...

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. As the founder and CEO of...

Strategic Information-technology Deployment

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...

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

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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