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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Business 101: Goal Setting and Strategic Planning

MMP

This article is the second installment in a four-part series on applying basic business concepts to radiology. To read the first installment, click here.

A Step-by-step Guide to Implementing PQRI

The 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act required the establishment of a physician quality reporting system. The requirement called for an incentive payment for eligible professionals who satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered professional services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS ultimately named this program the

Have RIS/PACS, Will Travel

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

For over thirty years, Radiation Physics Inc (Beltsville, Maryland) has been providing mobile imaging services to the Baltimore and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas, serving long-term–care and assisted-living clients, as well as prisons and private residences. “We started doing this in 1976, and the business model has been pretty much the same

Employing a Differentiation Strategy

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Attracting referrals is more crucial than ever for imaging-center operators who hope to see their facilities survive, and even thrive, in these difficult times. The task of maintaining or increasing market share, however, is complicated by aggressive competitors, each of which wants to be recognized by the greatest possible number of physicians and

Effective Quality Assurance: Obstacles and Pointers

Radisphere

As the radiology marketplace matures, becoming increasingly competitive, it’s more important than ever for practices to differentiate themselves based on quality, according to Peter Franklin, MD, chair of radiology for Radisphere National Radiology Group, Cleveland, Ohio. “The bar has been significantly raised,” Franklin observes. “The referring

Scenario Planning for Health-care Organizations

If you’re not scenario planning, you’re not planning. This bold assertion, issued in a recent white paper by GE Healthcare, is the driving philosophy behind the company’s $6 billion healthymagination initiative, and is an approach that it hopes to spread among health-care organizations. Survival in the health-care industry demands scenario-based

New Requirements for Documenting Imaging Orders

CMS published an interim final rule (with a comment period) on May 5, implementing several changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). In the interim final rule, CMS exercised its discretion in expanding the requirements of the legislation in ways significant to imaging centers

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