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.
