I am pleased to announce a new addition to our comprehensive news and information portal in the form of a series of video commentaries. Within these occasional commentaries, I will take the opportunity to discuss the implications for medical imaging leaders of the various trends and issues facing our profession. This first video is a brief

When Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System (BSA), Amarillo, Texas, decided (in early 2012) to replace two of its MRI systems—one in an outpatient center and the other in the hospital—it faced the prospect of changing imaging-equipment vendors in at least one of the facilities, as each had a different vendor’s MRI unit. What the two systems had in

Following several years of fast-paced merger/acquisition activity, the imaging market is poised to turn a corner in 2013, according to valuation experts Elliott Jeter, CFA, CPA/ABV, and Todd Sorensen, AVA, both partners with VMG Health. “This will be the year where pricing for imaging centers gets too high from the patient’s perspective,” Jeter

Few business processes for radiology practices are as fraught as negotiating managed-care contracts. Their duration and durability put a significant level of both current and future income on the line, but small and medium-sized practices, in particular, might feel that they have little leverage in the negotiating process. The keys to gaining the

Going into 2013, the message for radiology regarding participation in the meaningful-use program has not changed; if anything, it has intensified, according to Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chair of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and coauthor of The Radiologist’s Guide to Meaningful Use (RMU Press, 2011). “There is going to be

Advanced visualization technology in imaging continues to garner acceptance within the radiology arena, yielding improvements in practice patterns and opportunities for enhanced cooperation with clinicians. Sanjay Prabhu, MBBS, FRCR, is a staff radiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts and director of Boston Children’s Advanced

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 of the RSNA in Chicago, Illinois, neurologist Norman Foster, MD, copresented “What Imaging Measurements Are Needed in Clinical Practice?” He explains how imaging can increase physician

Having a tool kit of advanced visualization tools embedded in the PACS of the Keck Hospital of the University of Southern California (USC) has touched every aspect of the practice of Vinay Duddalwar, MD, FRCR. As abdominal-imaging section chief and director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCCC) imaging department, Duddalwar reports