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

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When Blessing Hospital, a rural facility in Quincy, Illinois that serves over 250,000 patients annually, added a neurosurgeon who specializes in scoliosis to its roster of over 240 physicians, an addition to its arsenal of radiography equipment was not far behind. Megan Main, RT, a technologist in Blessing Hospital’s radiology department, says, “In

While consideration of the individual facts, circumstances, and local competitive position of each subject imaging center is integral to an accurate business-valuation analysis, a thorough understanding of the state of the imaging industry—particularly the acquisition environment—is crucial to performing an accurate and complete valuation.

On November 25, at the 2012 RSNA annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, three radiologists presented “Saving Our Profession: How Radiologists Can Thrive in the Era of Health Care Reform.” The suggestions offered by the presenters—Bruce Hillman, MD; Lawrence Muroff, MD; and Norman Beauchamp, MD—varied, but all centered on a common theme: that

As health systems around the country initiate conversations with various constituents about becoming accountable-care organizations (ACOs), consternation in the radiology community continues over exactly what participation from practices might look like. Alan Kaye, MD, CEO of Advanced Radiology Consultants (Fairfield, Connecticut), says, “Almost