Since the third week of May 2009, a radiology forum at AuntMinnie.com has been on fire. At issue is the takeover of radiology services at a network of Toledo, Ohio, hospitals by Imaging Advantage LLC, Algonquin, Illinois, which calls itself “a nationally recognized radiology management company”1 in a press release. What ignited the forum fire was

As practices merge to gain leverage and broad subspecialty expertise, they also encounter commensurate new leadership challenges in governing ever-larger groups of independent-minded members. Consider, then, the challenges inherent in leading one of the nation’s largest radiology private practices, Advanced Radiology Services (ARS), in Grand Rapids

Penny Olivi, MBA, CRA, FAHRA, RT, has more than one finger on the pulse of radiology administration in this economic downturn. In addition to serving as president of the AHRA—The Association of Medical Imaging Management, she manages both the radiology department at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, and the department’s

Two studies¹,² published in May 2009 in Health Affairs have drawn attention to the administrative costs that physicians endure in dealing with health plans. One study estimated the cost, to US physicians, of handling authorizations, prescriptions, and other patient-care issues with health insurers to be up to $31 billion, an amount that researchers

A great place to begin improving the interoperability of health care informatics is where the radiology practice and the hospital intersect

Out of the box flew all of mankind’s misfortunes

Let’s get the full disclosure part out of the way right up front. I am a capitalist: an Adam Smith, free-market, supply-side, trickle-down-economics entrepreneur who believes that individuals have a right to build wealth for themselves without anyone being able to play Robin Hood with their money, freely redistributing to others what they honestly

When Hawaii Health Systems Corp (HHSC), Honolulu, began shopping for a PACS solution for three of its five island regions, newly hired CIO Money Atwal had a few unique issues to take into consideration. Though multisite PACS configurations are increasingly commonplace, most don’t have to cross water in order to work. Atwal needed a solution that