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

As health care organizations in California and across the country work to develop the infrastructure necessary to track patients’ cumulative radiation dose, the question remains: how accurate are our methods of predicting cancer risk from medical radiation? “The real question, as clinicians, is how do we make that information useful?” says Daniel

Jenifer Siegelman, MD, a radiologist with Norwich Diagnostic Imaging (NDI), had noticed something disturbing about the CT images coming out of the hospital her practice serves. Siegelman has been the director of CT at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, for eight years, and, she says, “What I have seen is that there is variable

Models for radiation dose tracking beyond a single health care facility or enterprise exist, and the experiences of these early pioneers can help predict what the next generation of cumulative dose estimation will look like, says Gregory Couch, CEO of Radimetrics. As an example, Couch points to a North American regional health authority in which 10