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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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Radiologist, Find Your Voice

In a major front-page story, "The High Cost of Precision," in its Sunday, September 7, 2008 edition, the Los Angeles Times once again focused on the negative side of CT technology. Its opening statement positioned its argument by saying, "CT scans produce detailed views of internal organs, but they expose patients to significant radiation." The

The Next Wave: Compliance With Medicare IDTF Standards Requires Ongoing Diligence

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To say that the health care regulatory environment has been active over the past two years would be an understatement. The focus of this article is Medicare: the primary payor for health care services in this country and, often, the standard by which other payors establish their payment rules. Revisions to Medicare regulations often foretell what

The Dynamics of Reimbursement and High-quality Care

Access to high-quality patient care is a cornerstone of customer-focused service delivery, Michael A. Silver, PhD, says. In turn, that goal is supported by technology that enhances performance and allows the imaging provider to do more with less. Part of making less go further is maximizing reimbursement through better management, he adds, ensuring

CCTA: Radiology Prepares

Though expertise and reimbursement lag, many radiology practices gear up to perform their share of a potential 20 million procedures a year

Florida Hold'em

In the show down between Florida Hospital and Florida Radiology Associates, the winner took all

Tomorrow’s Successful Imaging Leaders

In despair at the way its programs were organized, the business school at one university recruited as the director of programs a successful businessman, who had made a modest fortune in his own business and wanted to move on to a new career. ‘I will soon put some order in this place,’ he thought and said. He wrote memoranda to the academics laying

What is Quality Radiology?

The 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human¹ brought the extent and severity of medical errors to the attention of policymakers, hospital administrative staff, and health care providers. This landmark analysis sparked a broad change in the perception of how health care should be rendered to patients, with an increasing focus on safety and

Physician Productivity Tracking Takes Hold

With reimbursement declining, more practices are wading into the dangerous waters of tracking radiologists’ productivity

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