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

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

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

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

Only a Web-based, thin-client system should be considered by teleradiology providers, according to J. Raymond Geis, MD. It is also vital, Geis says, to make all information available on the Web and to save all data in a searchable form. These requirements apply to more than images and reports; they should cover detailed clinical data and

A survey of attendees at a May 2008 meeting has yielded a snapshot of today’s primary concerns for radiology practices. Educational Symposia, Tampa, Fla, sponsored the Third Annual Economics Summit 2008: Solving Practice Issues, which was held in Las Vegas on May 1–3. Lawrence R. Muroff, MD, program director, asked the summit’s 106 attendees to

Every company is, at once, two things: an economic organization whose survival depends on delivering value in an unforgiving market and a social institution with deep impact on the lives of its employees. The successful CEO must achieve a critical balance between the needs of shareholders and those of employees.

As radiology practices react to the impact of the DRA, some are tapping into the potential of interventional radiology to expand their outpatient services