January 12, 2012
Radisphere 2011 Milestones: Celebrates 10th Anniversary and Impressive Customer Growth
Radisphere, the only radiology provider offering proven accessibility and accountability to community hospitals, today announced several important milestones in 2011.

December 21, 2011
Survey Confirms that Radisphere Meets Needs of Community Hospital Physicians
As the complexity and demands of radiology services increase, Radisphere finds that it is meeting the needs of physicians at client hospitals, according to a recent survey.

November 9, 2011
Hospital Efficiency, Patient Safety Pioneer Randall Lipps Joins Radisphere Board of Directors
Radisphere, the only radiology provider offering proven accessibility and accountability to community hospitals, today announced the appointment of Randall A. Lipps to its board of directors. Mr. Lipps is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMCL), a leading provider of systems that enable healthcare facilities to increase operational efficiency, enhance patient safety, and allow clinicians to spend more time with patients.

October 21, 2011
New KLAS Report Reveals Radisphere Provides Superior Turnaround Times and Quality Reports for Radiology Services
Radisphere, the only radiology provider offering greater levels of accessibility and accountability to community hospitals, today announced that a recent KLAS report revealed Radisphere had the highest score in the area of report quality (8.3) and high marks for final report turnaround times (8.6). These marks led to an exceptional level of satisfaction among Radisphere's clients (95 percent).

October 19, 2011
Radisphere Initiative, "The Final Read on Quality," Supports Community Hospitals' Ongoing Quality Programs
Radisphere, the first and only accountable radiology provider serving community hospitals, today announced it will implement a wide-ranging quality initiative through 2012. "The Final Read on Quality" Initiative will help hospitals improve patient care and radiology performance through ongoing client quality efforts that also help fulfill Joint Commission requirements for ongoing professional practice evaluation.

September 29, 2011
Internationally Recognized Radiologist Thomas Pope, M.D., FACR Joins Radisphere's Clinical Leadership Team
Radisphere, a leading provider of quality on-site/off-site radiology services to community hospitals, today announced it has added Thomas Pope, M.D., FACR to its Clinical Specialty Board. Dr. Pope is a dedicated breast imaging specialist. Such specialists can detect more cancers (such as breast cancer) and early-stage cancers, recommend more biopsies, and recall fewer patients for additional testing than general radiologists.

August 30, 2011
Radisphere Survey Reveals Radiologists Value Their Peer Network and Attribute Improvements in Quality and Productivity to Technology
Radisphere, the market leader in software-enabled physician services, today announced the results of its annual Radiologist Satisfaction Survey, which looked to gauge overall satisfaction and perspective regarding the company's unique service delivery model, among its radiologists.

July 28, 2011
Radisphere Appoints Alison Shurell as Chief Marketing Officer
Radisphere, the market leader in software-enabled physician services, today announced that it has added Alison Shurell to the executive management team as chief marketing officer.

January 3, 2011
Radisphere Adds Fifth Kentucky Hospital
Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center Contract Added to State Presence
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has added Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center of Leitchfield, KY to its four other clients in the state. Radisphere will provide a combination of on-site and remote interpretation services as well as full night-time radiology coverage, all with final interpretations.

November 16, 2010
Radisphere National Radiology Group Secures Series C Financing
Maverick Capital Joins Oak Investment Partners in Radisphere Growth
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national radiology provider, today announced that it has secured $27.5 million in Series C financing. The financing round was led by Maverick Capital and included existing investor Oak Investment Partners.

November 2, 2010
Radisphere Elects National Health Care Leader as New Board Member
Martha H. Marsh joins Radisphere Board of Directors
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, today announced the appointment of Martha H. Marsh to its board of directors. Ms. Marsh has served as president and chief executive officer of Stanford Hospital and Clinics from 2002 through 2010 where she led a major organizational turnaround. 

October 19, 2010
Radisphere Adds Two California Hospitals to Client List
Sierra Kings and Hi-Desert are Newest Members of the Radisphere Community
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has added two additional California community hospitals to its growing list of clients. Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley has been utilizing Radisphere's complete radiology professional services since going live in September and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree will begin operations beginning October 2010.

September 23, 2010
Radisphere Implements On-Site Radiology Bridge (ORB™)
Links On-Site Radiologists with Proprietary Technology Platform Giving Multiple Benefits to Hospital Clients
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has implemented software technology utilized by their on-site staff radiologists at a hospital client site. The On-Site Radiology Bridge (ORB™) links the on-site staff radiologists to Radisphere's custom engineered radiology workflow system, radii™, the same system that is utilized by all remote Radisphere^SM radiologists.

September 1, 2010
Radisphere to Provide Radiology Services to South Carolina Hospitals
Two Tenet Healthcare Facilities to Better Serve Their Communities
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has secured agreements with two Tenet Healthcare facilities—Hilton Head Hospital of Hilton Head, SC and East Cooper Medical Center of Mt. Pleasant, SC—to provide a combination of on-site and remote interpretation services as well as full night-time radiology coverage, all with final interpretations.

April 7, 2010
Franklin & Seidelmann Launches New Company Named Radisphere National Radiology Group to Deliver Professional Radiology Services
Key Qualifications Needed to Reach Critical Scale
Franklin & Seidelmann (F&S), a leading, full-service radiology provider, has announced the creation of a new company called Radisphere National Radiology Group that fulfills the original co-founders' vision of a practice that spans the country with highest quality radiology services.

February 9, 2010
Franklin & Seidelmann to Serve Adventist Health Central Valley Network in Professional Radiology Services Agreement
Comprehensive Services Provide Cutting-Edge Enterprise Benefits
Franklin & Seidelmann (F&S), a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has begun the initial implementation to provide Adventist Health Central Valley Network with comprehensive exclusive services for radiology interpretations for Adventist Health's multiple facilities in Hanford and Selma, Calif. The contract specifies transitional services beginning this month and will ramp up to full services within approximately 60 days.

November 10, 2009
Franklin & Seidelmann Integrates Critical Findings Result Management Solution into Radiologist Workflow System
Helps to Improve Patient Care and Physician Communication
Franklin & Seidelmann (F&S), a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, has integrated its critical findings result management process into AccuRad™, F&S' proprietary web-based radiology workflow system that manages the creation and distribution of radiology reports. The system now automates the process that enables F&S radiologists to deliver critical result notification at the time it is identified by utilizing a new feature available on their reading dashboards. With a single click, an alert is routed to the F&S operations staff, which initiates contact with the referring physician.

October 20, 2009
Franklin & Seidelmann Secures Second "Cloud" Radiology Florida Client
Franklin & Seidelmann (F&S), a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations" provider today announced that they have secured a second contract for providing radiology services on a 100% remote basis to a Florida acute care community hospital. DeSoto Memorial Hospital has recently engaged F&S to exclusively provide all of its radiology professional interpretations through the highly regarded Franklin & Seidelmann network of specialized radiologists, even though none will be located at the DeSoto, FL facility. This contract is in addition to Doctors' Memorial Hospital of Perry, FL which went live with F&S services earlier this summer.

January 16, 2012
Can Standards-Based Radiology Services Improve Quality and Control Costs? The answer is, without question, yes.
As a 24-hour, high-volume service with many different types of consumers—emergency physicians, surgeons, orthopedists, oncologists and family practitioners—radiology is under more complex demands than ever before. How can a hospital better serve its medical staff and keep quality high, while controlling costs? By developing a standards-based approach to radiology services. This approach has worked for many industries from manufacturing to high-technology.

January 3, 2012
Northeast Regional teams up with Radisphere
One Heartland hospital is taking a huge step on the advancement of patient care thanks to a major partnership. Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Radisphere. It's the only radiology provider offering proven accessibility and accountability to community hospitals.

December 19, 2011
The Radiologist As Ambassador: Integrating On-site and Off-site Reading at Lima Memorial
When Daniel Schultz, DO, accepted a position with Radisphere five years ago, he was particularly excited about the prospect of a combined on-site and off-site radiology practice. "I saw it as a way to practice my specialty, but also to rely on my colleagues to cover their areas of expertise," he says. "With everyone working together, we can give high-quality service to smaller hospitals, and patients will receive the highest possible quality of care. I thought this vision was ahead of its time, and I believe in it even more strongly now."
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November 22, 2011
Radisphere aims to build community hospital customer base
Radisphere is looking to build its customer base of community hospitals a year after a substantial fundraise that helped bolster the company’s technology. The Cleveland-area company recently gained some recognition that should boost its sales pitch to potential customers: A report from research firm KLAS found that Radisphere scored higher than any of its peers in the quality of reports it provides to customers.

November 10, 2011
Taking the Extra Step to Reduce Radiation Dosage at Community Hospitals
Radisphere launched "The Final Read on Quality" initiative in October to help community hospitals improve the quality and safety of their radiology services. The initiative will focus first on reducing radiation dosage for patients and will then address the implementation of the Universal Protocol and the prevention of acute renal injury after contrast testing.

October 20, 2011
Radisphere Launches Quality Initiative
Radisphere, which provides radiology services to community hospitals, has announced it will implement a wide-ranging quality initiative through 2012, according to a news release.

October 19, 2011
What Medical Staffs Want From Radiology
Hospital medical staffs are increasingly expecting more from radiology—and small, traditional groups are struggling to keep up with those demands. That was the situation faced by Charles Rhoades, assistant administrator of clinical ancillary services at El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) in California.

October, 2010
How Radiology Volumes Impact Revenue
Four community hospitals, each located in a non-metropolitan area, sought to improve their radiology service. Each began to see improvements within about six months, and the gains were accomplished, for the most part, without adding new or better modalities.

August 18, 2010
When Your Quality Is Questioned: Answers From Frank Seidelmann, DO
Recent media coverage of a radiologist's accusations of inaccuracy against Radisphere National Radiology Group, Cleveland, Ohio, returns the question of quality to the forefront of discussion in the radiology community. ImagingBiz spoke with Frank Seidelmann, DO, chief innovation officer and clinical director of neuroradiology for Radisphere, both about the accusations and about how quality can be quantified, defended, and improved across the profession.

July 2010
Changing Business Models
As teleradiology providers increasingly encroach on services traditionally offered by radiology practices, the industry reacts.

June 16, 2010
Effective Quality Assurance: Obstacles and Pointers
As the radiology marketplace matures, becoming increasingly competitive, it's more important than ever for practices to differentiate themselves based on quality, according to Peter Franklin, MD, chair of radiology for Radisphere National Radiology Group, Cleveland, Ohio.

April 12, 2010
Radisphere National Radiology Group Launches
To further its aim of extending subspecialty radiology services to community hospitals, Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology, Beachwood, Ohio, recently announced the creation of a new company called Radisphere National Radiology Group. True to its name, the group will have a national scope, with the ability to provide radiology services to community hospitals from coast to coast.

March 2010
Too Close for Comfort?
One of the fastest growing trends in teleradiology is on-site services, bringing with it cost benefits to hospitals, but controversy, too.

March 16, 2010
Teleradiology Providers Open the Door to Cost Savings
Community hospitals, like their larger counterparts, continue to encounter financial challenges as they strive to deliver cutting-edge imaging services. For some institutions, engaging a full-service teleradiology provider could result in cost savings.

December 23, 2009
Automating Management of Critical Results
When Jane Wheatley, CEO of Taylor Regional Hospital, Campbellsville, Kentucky, needed to make a decision regarding her facility's handling of radiology services, she had two imperatives in mind: cost and quality. After the hospital's radiology group disbanded in the early 2000s, the 90-bed acute care center contracted with an outside radiology group "under a financial arrangement that was not good for our hospital," Wheatley says. "The quality was good, but the economics of it were not good at all."

October 14, 2009
Cracking the Code for Improving Quality
As the entire health care continuum comes under increased scrutiny in terms of both cost and effectiveness, radiologists and administrators alike have fresh cause to contemplate quality in the delivery of imaging services. What are the drivers of quality in radiology, and how can it be quantified, benchmarked, and ensured?

September 10, 2009
Hybrid Radiology Model Merges On-site Radiology With Remote Reading
In 2005, Lima Memorial Health System (LMHS), Lima, Ohio, was managing its 100,000 imaging studies per year through a traditional hospital–radiologist relationship.

June 15, 2009
Keeping Country Radiology Cool
A rising tide lifts all boats, as the saying goes, and thanks to the hastening deployment of subspecialty teleradiology, some of the smallest imaging-department boats are riding high.

May 15, 2009
Extreme Subspecialization Builds Its Own Knowledge Base
"The more you see, the better you are," Javier Beltran, MD, FACR, says. "You're exposed to so much pathology that you've seen it all, at the end of the day. It brings your expertise to another level." Beltran is talking about what might be called extreme subspecialization.

April 15, 2009
F&S Chair Frank Seidelmann, D.O.: On the Radiologist of the Future
After bearing witness to countless imaging booms and busts over the course of 30-plus years in the field, Seidelmann looks to subspecialization as the trend that will change the face of radiology as we know it in the years to come.

October 19, 2011
The Final Read on Quality
A Proactive Approach to Radiation Dose Reduction
The pressure to reduce radiation dose is being applied to radiology providers like never before. The movement first began gaining serious momentum in 2007 when the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging launched its Image Gently℠ campaign. In addition, the FDA has launched Image Wisely™, a major initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure in adult medical imaging, and Congress has held hearings on the topic as well.

July 9, 2010
Improving Radiology Revenue Opportunities for Community Hospitals Through Higher Quality Service Levels
Radiology, in any community hospital setting, must be seen first as a center of excellence before any profitability considerations can enter into the equation. But quality in radiology can drive radiology economics. Revenue from radiology is, by far, the largest of the outpatient service line contributors to a community hospital’s bottom line. It dwarfs its nearest competitor—cardiology—by nearly three times.1 (Table 1). This profit source is also a major reason why diagnostic imaging departments have attracted large capital investments from their hospital’s executive suite to fund CT, MR and PET purchases over the last decade.

November 1, 2009
New Model of Community Hospital Radiology Cost Reductions From an Unforeseen Source: Via Professional Fees
For several years now imaging has been fingered as a suspected culprit for the high rate of healthcare cost increases in the U.S. The interrogation light, though, has been on imaging centers and physician self-referral and has kept away from community hospital-based imaging from being included in those accusations for good reason. The radiologist vanguard has also done a respectable job defending itself noting the many benefits and downstream cost savings that diagnostic imaging brings to a wide array of clinical conditions. But for the community hospital CEO and CFO, radiology continues to be a daunting department insofar as their thirst for capital expenditures to deliver cutting edge imaging services.