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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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What's With the Attitude?

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

At least half of the elements of various success formulas, in business and in life, relate to one’s ability to keep a positive outlook—especially when circumstances make it most difficult to do so. It is so easy to succumb to the temptation to curl up in a fetal position in the face of adversity. Frankly, there is something to be said for the

MQSA: Numerically Speaking

Though the population of women over 40 is on the rise, the number of mammography facilities fully certified in compliance with the provisions of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) has declined slightly over the past five years. In December 2002, there were 9,306 fully certified facilities; as of December 31, 2007, there were 8,859.

The Rise of Vertically Integrated Women’s Imaging

Providing the full continuum of breast care earns the loyalty of the all-important female health care consumer, considerable downstream imaging, and the mammography annuity

Precertification: The Provider Foots the Bill

Is radiology benefit management (RBM) companies extend the reach of precertification and preauthorization programs, hospitals and physician practices across the nation are incurring significant personnel and software costs in their efforts to manage program requirements.

Ten Reasons Plans Fail

So many strategic plans end up collecting dust because group practices are not properly primed to act, Richard Townley, MBA, president and CEO of AGI Healthcare Group, San Ramon, Calif, believes. He shared his philosophy at the RBMA-sponsored Managing a Radiology Business from the Top: Physicians & Administrators meeting on February 23, 2008, in

Trends in Managed Care Cost Containment: What Will They Think of Next?

A former managed care executive predicts that accreditation/credentialing and cost transparency are next up in insurers’ campaigns to contain imaging costs

In Search of Web-site Optimization

In 1998, Jakob Nielsen, PhD, hailed by the New York Times as the guru of Web-page usability, wrote, “The Web is simply not that suited for advertising.”1 He also predicted that content would become self-optimizing. In his defense, it should be noted that Nielsen was right far more often than he was wrong. Since then, the Internet has developed both

Do Market Opportunities Remain in Outpatient Imaging?

Attractive opportunities remain in outpatient imaging, but they are highly market specific

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‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.