Business Intelligence

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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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

The Logistics of PACS for the Practice

Now that radiology practices have discovered the benefits of PACS, they are investing in the IT support to leverage the technology for its maximum potential

Role of the Practice CIO

The adoption of PACS by radiology practices has added a new member to their executive committees: the CIO. “The core duties of the CIO in a practice that has acquired PACS ought to be to establish security of the PACS data for both the radiology group and its clients and to ensure the continuity and availability of the network at all times,”

Game Plan for New Leaders

IN THE FEBRUARY 2008 ISSUE OF THE Harvard Business Review, Gott fredson et al1 look at the role of the incoming CEO or general manager. From 1999 to 2006, they note, the average tenure of departing CEOs in the United States fell from 10 years to just over eight, and in 2006, around 40% of departing CEOs had lasted an average of 1.8 years. The

What’s the Deal? A Look at Current Recruiting Packages in Radiology

As most markets are, the job market for physicians is fluid and is subject to shifts that can be either gradual or abrupt. At Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, Irving, Texas, we track these shifts in our annual Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives, which we have been compiling for 15 years. The review includes a breakdown of the recruiting

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