Completing a customized report using RIS data-mining software (or some other system) is simply a matter of learning a little technology. For Stefanie Dendy, director of radiology at King’s Daughters Hospital in Yazoo City, Miss, it can be as easy as changing the start-date and end-date fields for the information that you want to correlate.

Teleradiology permeates the specialty as practices cross state, regional, and global boundaries to purchase and practice radiology

RIS data, keyed to billing, can be analyzed to improve competitive capability and pare inefficiency to the nub

Due to inequities in payment methodology, are providers of imaging services overpaid?

Turf questions have always surrounded the provision and interpretation of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies. Who should read these studies? Cardiologists and radiologists are unlikely to exclude each other from interpreting these studies, but the application of standards may help both specialties ensure an emphasis on appropriate training and

Radiology practices and departments that intend to offer coronary CT angiography (CCTA) need to consider how the additional exam volume and time commitments created by CCTA studies will affect their operations and their staffing models. Will they need to hire additional radiologists, nurses, and/or technologists to manage the extra workload? Who

Radiologists must counteract practice developments that can result in trivializing their specialty's contributions to medicine

It’s no secret that utilization control has emerged as the method of choice for private payors focused on reining in imaging costs. What is surprising is the speed with which radiology benefit management (RBM) companies have brought the commercial-payor market under the influence of precertification. At the end of 2005, RBMs covered approximately