Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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What Payors Want From Radiology

What, exactly, do patients, employers, and insurers want from radiology? All too frequently, the answer is more expertise, at a lower price.

Measuring the Potential Impact of the Proposed 2013 MPFS

  

88 New ACOs

Physician groups figure prominently among 88 new accountable-care organizations (ACOs) added to the Medicare Shared Savings Program’s participants on July 1, 2012. With the latest announcement from CMS,1 154 organizations are now participating in the initiative, covering more than 2.4 million beneficiaries.

Shapeshifting in the Era of Health-care Reform

Engage in scenario planning to prepare for the changes ahead, Frank Lexa, MD, MBA, says. Lexa identifies six incontrovertible challenges that drove the adoption of health-care reform (and another six issues that will bedevil radiologists, moving forward) in “Healthcare Reform and the Future of Radiology: Navigating the Change,” which he presented

Image Gently Responds to the FDA

One of the leaders driving low-dose, high-quality pediatric imaging is the multisociety advocacy group Image Gently®. When the FDA¹ issued a draft guidance document for imaging-equipment manufacturers in May 2012, Keith Strauss, MSc—a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging (the Image Gently

Manager to Leader: Seven Transitional Steps

In a landscape growing increasingly concerned with cost, quality, and results, strong leaders are needed to pave a path for the future of health care. Conventional wisdom dictates that leaders are born from a mix of experience and acquired skills. Given these requirements, managers are natural candidates, but not every manager has what it takes to

Summer Reverie and Olympic Dreams

August is the sweetest month. The Pacific Ocean is finally warm enough to swim in, the tomatoes are ripening faster than I can eat them, and I give myself permission to slow down a bit and to spend an extra half hour reading the newspapers in the morning.

Practices Adapt at the Expense of Political Advocacy

Readers of this journal tend to be interested in the business of radiology. We recognize the priority of having efficient and effective practices, whatever future health-care environment evolves. Observers would probably agree that many radiology practices have successfully improved their operational performance as market forces have demanded more

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