It depends on how many different ways you want to measure it, says Daryl Eber, MD, co-founder and CMO of itMD.

Change is rarely easy, but Mark Stolper, executive vice president and CFO of RadNet, Inc (Los Angeles, California), says that it does not have to be painful. Communicating a workable vision and working with existing stakeholders can make all the difference because an acquisition has many moving parts. With 233 imaging centers now operating under

Progressive Radiology was facing a problem familiar to many radiology practices: Hospital IT policies were interfering with its ability to deliver images and reports to referrers. Dominic Mezzanotte is director of information systems at the practice, which has 10 locations in Maryland. “We struggled with some of our top referrers, who are part of a

Lingering doubts about the image quality generated by open-bore MRI technology have, perhaps, unfairly held up its adoption. When a pair of radiology organizations set up the equivalent of an MRI Pepsi® challenge in their respective practice environments, staff members at both locations were surprised at the response.

The very nature of many radiology groups’ governance structures—highly democratic, split among multiple partners, and with each partner’s vote given equal weight—creates an unfortunate tendency toward emotional decision making. As the inside joke goes, in a radiology practice, you call 99 votes versus one vote a tie. Decision making can easily be

In April, Medscape released results from its annual physician survey¹ on salary, job satisfaction, and more; among the most controversial of these results was the revelation that only 54% of those surveyed said that they would choose medicine again as a career. Stephen Pomeranz, MD, founder and CEO of ProScan Imaging (Cincinnati, Ohio), connects

Summa Health System (Akron, Ohio), one of the largest health-care networks in the state, was facing a difficulty common to organizations that provide imaging for bariatric patients: the 0.3T open MRI system at its Summa Health Center at White Pond, to which many of these patients had to be referred, was too low in field strength for certain types

It’s more than a truism to discuss mobile computing as the next horizon in the delivery of health care. Today, the achievements of such systems are measured in degrees of eventuality, rather than possibility; their potentials are gauged in whens, not ifs.