A radiology provider should look at an audit as a strategic opportunity, not a punishment, Claudia A. Murray, RCC, told her audience at the RBMA 2009 Radiology Summit in Orlando, Florida, on June 8. Murray, who presented “Internal Compliance Auditing: How to Implement an Effective (and Doable) Audit Plan,” is a principal at CMC Consulting, LLC

In a session at this month’s meeting of AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lyn M. Mehlberg, BS, CNMT, FSNMTS, a self-described regulations junkie, predicted that regulators—including the Joint Commission, CDC, OSHA, and CMS—are poised to come down hard on radiology on the issue of infection control in

It could be the smiling greeter who welcomes patients into the facility, or the glasses of lemon water and the tray of cookies keeping them company in the waiting room. Perhaps the wide variety of magazines will make all the difference, or the new carpet.

There is perhaps no greater indicator of an organization’s cultural health than the degree to which members of the group—really, a community—trust one another. It is the case in large as well as small groups. Indeed, with individual relationships between two people, if there is no trust, there truly is no relationship. When groups have trust, they

By stipulation, there were to be no winners when eight vendors of advanced imaging workstations and their physician teams competed in the Seventh Annual Original Workstation Face-off, held May 20 in San Francisco, California, at Stanford Radiology’s 11th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-row CT. Even so, according to two radiologists

Ever since digital imaging liberated radiologists from the site of image acquisition, radiology practices have labored to patch together distributed reading solutions that would efficiently meet the needs of multiple clients, balance workflow, and enable subspecialization.

An established health care consulting practice had been in business for several years. As part of its growth and development, it had a logo designed by a veteran graphic artist and developed a tagline (a slogan that appeared below its logo). Earlier this year, as part of its routine due diligence, the company’s staff visited the Web sites of its

Gretchen Birbeck, MD