The cost of health IT ownership is projected to be nearly twice what hospitals and independent health clinics spend on IT technology and software in 2009, according to Mike Davis, vice president, HIMSS Analytics™, Chicago, Illinois. He shared trends from a database that includes 32,000 health care providers in the United States and Canada during a

Recognizing that outpatient imaging revenue is far too important to the bottom line to forfeit the business to aggressive and nimble entrepreneurs, hospitals and health systems have moved aggressively into their communities in recent years with their own outpatient imaging center initiatives. Radiology Business Journal invited executives from

Be aware of clinical, customer-service, and medicolegal issues in devising an image-storage solution for MDCT studies—and know that the interpretation tools are in transition

Since the third week of May 2009, a radiology forum at AuntMinnie.com has been on fire. At issue is the takeover of radiology services at a network of Toledo, Ohio, hospitals by Imaging Advantage LLC, Algonquin, Illinois, which calls itself “a nationally recognized radiology management company”1 in a press release. What ignited the forum fire was

As practices merge to gain leverage and broad subspecialty expertise, they also encounter commensurate new leadership challenges in governing ever-larger groups of independent-minded members. Consider, then, the challenges inherent in leading one of the nation’s largest radiology private practices, Advanced Radiology Services (ARS), in Grand Rapids

Penny Olivi, MBA, CRA, FAHRA, RT, has more than one finger on the pulse of radiology administration in this economic downturn. In addition to serving as president of the AHRA—The Association of Medical Imaging Management, she manages both the radiology department at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, and the department’s

Two studies¹,² published in May 2009 in Health Affairs have drawn attention to the administrative costs that physicians endure in dealing with health plans. One study estimated the cost, to US physicians, of handling authorizations, prescriptions, and other patient-care issues with health insurers to be up to $31 billion, an amount that researchers

A great place to begin improving the interoperability of health care informatics is where the radiology practice and the hospital intersect