As the January 1, 2012, deadline nears for mandatory accreditation of advanced diagnostic imaging facilities, concerned ACR officials have issued the equivalent of football’s two-minute warning, urging sidelined providers to mobilize and apply today. Government regulators have already reaffirmed their refusal to grant extensions, setting the stage

Judging solely by the number of imaging engagements at our company during the first half of 2011, imaging transactions continue at a frantic pace. For the most part, there are not any new trends to report in imaging valuations. Discount rates, multiples, and the primary value drivers—competition, volumes, reimbursement, and capital-expenditure

With 26 radiologists on staff and 11 locations in the San Diego, California, area, Imaging Healthcare Specialists (IHS) is the largest provider of outpatient imaging services in San Diego county; its reach extends into neighboring Riverside County as well. Like any busy radiology practice, IHS has a strong focus on MRI services, with 13 MRI systems

This article is second in a four-part series on health-care reform and radiology. To read the first article in the series, click here.

Archiving and distributing the large data sets associated with images can be a challenge for many radiology practices. University Radiology in New Brunswick, New Jersey, would encounter a larger-than-usual share of obstacles on this front if it were not for a carefully thought-out image-archiving and -distribution strategy built upon the unique

Arlington-based Virginia Hospital Center (VHC) performs nearly 200,000 imaging studies annually, between its cardiology and radiology departments. Behyar Ghahramani, manager of medical systems engineering at VHC, estimates that cardiology accounts for between 45,000 and 50,000 studies a year, while radiology is responsible for 140,000 to 150,000.

On April 14, 2011, Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc (Twinsburg, Ohio), announced the FDA approval of its first 64-slice CT system, SCENARIA™. ImagingBiz.com spoke with Mark Silverman, manager of CT marketing for Hitachi, about the company’s goals for the new product and the assessment of the current CT marketplace that drove its design.

In today’s challenging business environment, it is more critical than ever before that radiology groups engage in strategic planning. Ironically, the same factors that make strategic planning so necessary to a group’s survival also make it difficult to dedicate resources to the process. Those practices that do carve out the necessary time will see