Vendor relationships can be tough, and many end in a heap of disappointments, unfulfilled expectations, and miscommunications. If your vendors didn’t deliver, is it your fault or theirs? What really went wrong? Can you fix it? These are million-dollar questions.

Just in time, radiology providers are arriving at an understanding of their unique branding propositions.

In the near term, radiology practices must turn their attention to managing expens­es instead of growth. Physicians in radi­ology who believe that the current eco­nomic downturn will somehow bypass their practices, and who do not gird themselves for the new reality, may be left on the scrap heap of failed enterprises. Because we are in a service

Reflections on the first year of the journey

Why compile a list of the 50 largest radiology practices? We acknowledge that the list is far from complete, and that there may be some inconsistencies in the way that respondents answered the questions. Some radiology groups chose not to respond, and some may not have been aware that the survey was being done, so they are not included in the list.

How to afford health care is not the question we should be asking in these times of unsustainable health care cost increases. The right question to ask is this: How do we make health care more affordable? That is the question tackled by Hwang and Christensen¹ in a recent paper published in Health Affairs: Disruptive Innovation in Health Care

An overview of recent regulatory changes affecting diagnostic imaging

In an era of declining reimbursement for radiology, one practice is testing the limits of IT’s ability to improve productivity