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.

August 24, 2009
Franklin & Seidelmann Hires Healthcare Executive Larsen to Head New Marketing Initiative
Franklin & Seidelmann (F&S), a leading, national full-service radiology interpretations provider, today announced that it has added Clayton T. Larsen, an executive from the healthcare equipment, software and services field to lead its new marketing initiatives. Larsen was appointed senior vice president of marketing at F&S; in this newly created role, he will oversee those activities for communicating the range of service offerings that provide its clients with the best in subspecialty radiology reads for every examination.

February 4, 2009
Franklin & Seidelmann Expands into Critical Access Hospital Market
Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology (F&S) has further broadened its market penetration into the hospital company sector with the addition of three new Critical Access Hospitals to its client roster:

• Barnes-Kasson Hospital, Susquehanna, PA
• New Horizons Medical Center, Owenton, KY
• Syringa General Hospital, Grangeville, ID

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.

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.