On August 23, Virtual Radiologic (vRad), Eden Prairie, Minn, and New York’s S&D Medical, a 60-person radiology practice based in Bedford, NY, announced the launch of a new strategic alliance. Merging S&D with a vRad-affiliated medical practice, the partnership will form a new group called the New York Radiology Alliance, which will serve the New

Radiologic technologist vacancy rates at radiology facilities across the United States continue to decline across all disciplines, according to data collected in the annual Radiology Staffing Survey from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). The survey included questions regarding the staffing at each facility, demographics,

Having cold water dashed in one’s face can result in spluttering, but it can be welcome when an effective wake-up call is needed. Both reactions to a 2010 article¹ abstract on patient-centered radiology might be expected; the authors deliver a sometimes-harsh assessment of radiology’s shortcomings, but they also offer concrete suggestions that

Six-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System (DOCHS), Los Altos Hills, California, was facing a problem increasingly familiar to providers of imaging services (and particularly to multihospital networks): It was becoming too expensive and difficult to manage its long-term image archive. All archived images were stored in hospital-managed data

CMS released the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) in July, proposing myriad changes that CMS notes would result in a 6% payment cut for radiology services. That reduction doesn’t include the impact of the 23% cut that will take place on December 1, when this year’s temporary 2.2% payment update expires—or the additional 6.1% cut

Recent media coverage of a radiologist’s accusations of inaccuracy against Radisphere National Radiology Group, Cleveland, Ohio, returns the question of quality to the forefront of discussion in the radiology community. ImagingBiz spoke with Frank Seidelmann, DO, chief innovation officer and clinical director of neuroradiology for Radisphere, both

While hospitals have always been significant players in the market for freestanding imaging centers, volume for hospitals purchasing all or part of the ownership interest in freestanding imaging centers has increased dramatically over the past few years. For hospitals already involved in joint ventures with physicians or entrepreneurial companies,

For nearly a year and a half following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the medical community had one question on its mind: What constitutes meaningful use? The HITECH legislation stresses that in order to receive stimulus funding for health IT, providers must prove meaningful use of