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Ultrasound Aboard the International Space Station

Radiology Management

On March 8, 2001, NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a special payload—a modified Philips/ATL HDI 5000 Ultrasound System ...

Go for growth What will it take to be a leader in the next growth cycle?

CEO Today

Now is the time to separate your company from competitors. If your company can achieve growth through the foreseeable future, it will emerge as one of the leaders in the next growth cycle ...

The Art & Science of Winning Physician Support for Six Sigma

Physician Executive Journal

As hospitals face mounting regulatory burdens, calls for improved quality and safety, serious budget challenges and extraordinary capital requirements for infrastructure and new technology ...

The Indispensable CFO

Finance Today

Chief bean counter. Cost cop. Gatekeeper. These are all colorful terms that have been used to describe the role of the chief financial officer. The truth is, they are as out-ofdate as wood paneling or brick-sized cell phones ...

Making Cents Out of the Hiring Process

Strategic Finance

When major companies replace executives at the highest levels, whole communities pay attention and watch for the golden parachute that everyone has come to expect. We’re all amazed and often shocked by the costs associated with severance packages ...

Broadening Use of Financial Data To Improve Patient Care

Healthcare Financial Management

Healthcare CFOs can use financial data not only to reduce utilization and supply costs, but also to identify variability in physician practices, increase adherence to evidence-based guidelines ...

Bonding with Physicians: Hospitals and IT Donations

Trustee

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM LEADERship may still be hesitant to use the recently implemented Stark exceptions for the donation of health information technology to their community-based ...

Europe’s pre-owned market will accelerate

www.hospitalradiologyeurope.com

Since 1978 I’ve been involved in the pre-owned medical equipment business. Initially, I sold imaging equipment in China as an agent for Picker. In more than 70 trips there I sold ...

Is the end in sight?

Global Reinsurance

THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL PERSONAL injury tort claim relating to asbestos in the US was settled in the early 1970s. For the next decade, seriously ill individuals – those with cancer or severe asbestosis – filed almost all of the claims. Many targeted the ...

Hospital-Physician Clinical Integration

Center for Healthcare Governance

As long as there have been hospitals; the topic of improving hospital-physician relationships has been a focus for trustees.Today, however, the conversation has both a heightened sense of urgency and a wider scope of alternatives than ever before ...

PART VII Transfers: An Update

Insurance & Reinsurance Law Briefing

Since Part VII of Financial Service and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) took effect there has been great interest in the use of this restructuring tool within the run-off sector of the non-life insurance market in the United Kingdom. The majority of Part VII insurance business transfer schemes effected in the ...