ImagingBiz

Perspectives

Steve Smith
It Takes Will to Fight Commoditization

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

Cheryl Proval
The Jig is Up

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

Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle
Video: Influence and Leadership

Cat Vasko
When Bigger Isn’t Better

Business

Best Practices: How the RBMs Score

Growth in imaging utilization has led prior authorization (a 1980s health-plan strategy) to be applied to advanced imaging services. RBMs have developed increasingly complex programs to reduce imaging expenses

Leadership

Cracking the Code

No matter what one thinks about health-care reforms as they are currently being revealed in their entirety, implicit within any future integrated delivery system (accountable-care organization) is the understanding

Commodity Practice or Experience Monopoly?

Rehabilitating the E Word

Imaging Informatics

University of Pennsylvania Health System: Inside an Imaging-informatics Incubator

By observing the quantity and quality of informatics innovation emerging from a radiology department, it is possible to identify those institutions that are nurturing the next wave of informaticists

Dashboards: From Data to Discovery

Following the Sound and the Fury: Meaningful-use Attestation

Care Delivery

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 risen 16% per year since 1995, and

Health Policy

Price Disparity + Price Transparency=Imaging-market Turmoil

Buy a banana, and it will cost you less than a dollar per pound—unless you’re in a hotel, where it might cost you twice the grocery-store price.

CT and MRI: Regional Variations in Utilization and Reimbursement

A Conversation With the Nation’s Health IT Chiefs

Imaging Referendum

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