Practice Management: Page 988

Driving improvement without driving the docs away: rethinking the MQSA
Recent news and commentary about the upcoming reauthorization of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) is causing both fear and hope among providers. The fear is that further regulation will create unsustainable burdens on mammography providers, while hope rests on somehow finding ways to reduce the false-negative rate in mammography. Consultant Gerald Kolb discusses the issue in this editorial opinion.
May 26, 2003
Berman leaves Kodak
Imaging industry veteran Dr. Phillip Berman has left Eastman Kodak Health Imaging and its AuntMinnie.com subsidiary, Kodak of Rochester, NY, reported last week.
May 25, 2003
InSight promotes Drazba
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider InSight Health Services has named Brian Drazba as executive vice president and CFO.
May 21, 2003
PET budgeting can pave the way to profitability
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
SAN ANTONIO - Given the low reimbursement rate on the professional component of PET imaging, a facility that is considering offering PET services needs to include the technical component as part of its billing to make it worthwhile, according to a presenter at the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) summit.
May 21, 2003
Konica names new president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Konica Medical Imaging has appointed Terry Hasegawa as president, replacing outgoing president and COO Wayne Thompson.
May 20, 2003
Kodak taps Tweed to lead OEM business
Eastman Kodak Health Imaging has appointed Jonathan Tweed as a vice president and director of its worldwide OEM business.
May 20, 2003
InSight Health’s CFO leaves company
The chief financial officer of imaging services provider InSight Health Services has left the company.
May 20, 2003
Stainken to lead radiology at Roger Williams
Interventional radiologist Dr. Brian F. Stainken has been named chairman of the department of diagnostic imaging at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, RI.
May 20, 2003
Small investments in imaging ergonomics yield major gains
Many larger medical facilities offer ergonomic training and assessments to help employees use the right tools in the right way. However, for those who don't have access to a specialist, ergonomic furniture expert Cathy Filgas, and a few PACS administrators, offer some pointers.
May 20, 2003
CTF adds MEG sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
VSM MedTech subsidiary CTF Systems has signed a contract to install its 275-channel Omega magnetoencephalography (MEG) system at No. 85 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Shanghai.
May 19, 2003
Whole-body CT: Greater than the sum of its parts?
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
SAN ANTONIO - Whole-body CT screening has no lack of detractors. But opposition to whole-body CT screening comes across as senseless given the promising results of CT screening for coronary artery disease, lung cancer, and colon cancer, said Dr. Michael Brant-Zawadzki during a presentation Monday at the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) summit.
May 19, 2003
Universal room design can mitigate change costs
Here’s the situation: in healthcare architecture, an architect needs detailed equipment specifications for the major pieces of fixed equipment in order to design the facility properly. But here’s the problem: clients sometimes change their minds about equipment specifications, and this can have a major impact on the project.
May 15, 2003
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