While McCormick Place hummed with science and commerce across town, an unusual gathering of top outpatient imaging center executives met for breakfast on the sixth floor of Chicago’s University Club on Tuesday, November 20. Adding to the unparalleled nature of the event were the invited guest speakers for the morning, two top executives from rival

When Paul S. Viviano, joined Alliance Imaging in January of 2003, the company was almost exclusively a mobile MRI vendor. Since then, the company’s chairman of the board and CEO has overseen an aggressive diversification strategy, moving the hospital-centric company into fixed-site MRI hospital partnerships, PET/CT, and most recently radiation

In the technology-driven field of radiology, it is not just what is installed, but when, where, and why the technology is deployed, according to three experts interviewed by ImagingBiz.com. Many factors drive technology decisions, beginning with the existing competitive environment and inevitably arriving at the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

In the world of Washington politics, health care and health care policy are high stakes and high profile. With today’s skyrocketing federal budget, and burgeoning deficit, the President and Congress are looking for savings.

There is a theme one finds in the writings and musings of the best business leaders that remains consistent no matter what industry, profession, or type of organization. True success, level 5 leaders will tell you, is dependent on the leader’s ability to attract superior talent and exceptional people with which to build and sustain the enterprise.

In announcing the acquisition of the assets of Papastavros’ Associates Medical Imaging for $18 million in Delaware, Los Angeles-based RadNet has claimed a major stake in its first new market since the purchase of Radiologix. The transaction gives RadNet 12 imaging centers in Delaware, a market adjacent to its Maryland position, where the company is

In the fall of 2005, 58-member Wake Radiology found itself feeling vulnerable. Having achieved the holy grail of the electronic practice by banishing paper and film, the practice understood that it had much to lose if it lost the network over which it leveraged subspecialized reads across three area hospitals and 11 standalone imaging centers in

In last year’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule, CMS described its concerns for the potential for fraud, waste and abuse of the Medicare program that may be caused by the growth of so-called “pod” or “condo” laboratories. “Pod” laboratories are laboratories that are located off-site from a physician’s office (sometimes even in