At the 2012 Fall Educational Conference of the RBMA in Chandler, Arizona, on October 9, a panel of industry experts assembled by ImagingBiz presented “Is It Time to Buy, Hold, Sell, or JV?” to discuss the current mergers-and-acquisitions outlook for imaging. The speakers were Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle, CEO of ImagingBiz; Todd Sorensen, AVA, a

Imagine owning or operating a business in which your best customers pretty much dictate your prices. In that same business, you face an organized effort to tell you when and how you can practice your trade, and those guidelines are often contrary to what you have been trained to do. Imagine, too, that your business also experiences skyrocketing

In a world of PACS and enterprise imaging, the performance of the enterprise viewer often takes a back seat. For Brad Levin, an imaging veteran of more than two decades, it’s a mystifying mindset since the diagnostic workstation (viewer) is literally the front seat of a radiologist’s day-to-day existence.

Call it a classic case of not wanting to be the last kid on the block to own one.

A partnership works best when it enhances and rewards its partners. That is the case with the partnership between University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Philips Healthcare that is focused on developing, advancing and enhancing medical and molecular imaging technology. It also benefits another very important group—patients.

How much would an extra $44,000 government stipend mean to your radiology practice? Would it be enough to cover the hassle of diving into the attestation to meaningful use of health IT? To date, many practices have declined to participate, according to David Avrin, MD, PhD, of the University of California–San Francisco. On September 9, in San

While the news crews have moved on to coverage of the final rule for stage 2 meaningful use, the reality is this: The vast majority of radiology practices still has not met the stage 1 requirements. Their greatest challenge is likely to be understanding how the rule applies to their practice setting, and radiology practices are interpreting that in

On August 23, CMS released the final rule for stage 2 meaningful use of health IT. Unlike the stage 1 rule, the stage 2 rule contains myriad radiology-specific portions that might have radiologists in a state of confusion, but things could be simpler than they seem. RadInformatics.com recently conferred with Alberto Goldszal, PhD, MBA, CIO of