Whether an entity is being partnered or acquired, up-front money is always the first consideration. While no one denies the importance of dollars, Todd J. Sorensen, a partner at VMG Health (Nashville, Tennessee), warns his clients that even the most lucrative deals can go sour if cultures clash and operational issues make life miserable.

On September 1, 2011, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert related to radiation dose from diagnostic imaging. “If a patient receives repeated doses, harm can occur as the cumulative effect of those multiple doses over time,” the alert states. “Conversely, using insufficient radiation may increase the risk of misdiagnosis, delayed

As health care continues to struggle with a hobbled economic outlook, few aspects of operations have remained unscathed—and those include the financial processes related to the acquisition of new imaging equipment, according to Mark Hoffman, senior vice president of the health-care group at Key Equipment Finance (Superior, Colorado). “In the past

I had the opportunity to attend the annual Economics of Diagnostic Imaging (EDI) conference in Arlington, Virginia, for the first time on October 27–30; although the one–two punch of flying across the country for EDI and then the RSNA® 2011 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, held little appeal, I was excited to attend

The average compensation brought home by top executives of health care systems was slightly higher this year, with increases averaging 3% in 2011 over 2010, reveals a survey conducted by Integrated Health Strategies, a health care management consulting firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Dallas, Texas.

A Massachusetts commission responsible for controlling health care costs in that state has issued a recommendation that price controls be imposed on hospitals and other medical providers, State House News Service (www.statehousenews.com) reports.

RadNet, Inc., a Los Angeles, California-based provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 212 fully-owned and operated outpatient imaging centers, on Tuesday reported that it has completed an acquisition of the vast majority of the U.S. imaging operations of CML HealthCare Inc. (CML), Toronto, Ontario.

Health care organizations should report errors related to health IT, according to a report just released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).