Hospital Radiology Partners

03/09/2013

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Mary M. Saltz, MD Once, a baby shower marked a step to acceptance, a tribute to unity. I had joined a big, powerful private practice as a green Radiologist just out of training, and it was not easy to get a footing in that…

02/25/2013

The Greenbrier Hotel, the place, the year 1960…A hotel of luxury, an immense resort serving the Washington elite since the 1700s was chosen as the site of an emergency evacuation bunker for Washington government elite in case of a cold … Continue reading →

02/18/2013

An odd tumor of the pancreas, held in the hand, a death-the history of watery profuse diarrhea. Why, what, how? That was the gross pathology of discovery, a window to disease. The year was 1958, the pathologist, my father Duke, … Continue reading →

02/11/2013

That was in 1941[i] …. Have people really changed since then? Do doctors want to harm patients? What about William Hope Fowler… a Radiologist who died in 1933 at age 57, losing one finger after another to the ravages of … Continue reading →

02/06/2013

Mornings were rough, but Sylvia was right there with a cup of coffee, just the way I liked it, lots of milk-no sugar. That was pretty special, a mark of importance, because she did not bring coffee to just anyone—after all … Continue reading →

02/01/2013

CMS announces 450 health care organizations will participate in Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative. http://tinyurl.com/bzd6cd2

The initiative is designed to test whether this payment model will lower costs without undermining the quality of care.

02/01/2013

Engagement is the Next Frontier for Connected Health. http://tinyurl.com/b5fxcn9

Seeing the fast-growing market for personal connected health devices displayed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, I couldn't help but reflect on how far consumer connected health has come. No...

01/29/2013

It’s Time for Intrapreneurs To Lead Change From Inside The Company http://tinyurl.com/auyr9q4

Empower Employees to Innovate

01/28/2013

Social Media Changing Healthcare Landscape http://tinyurl.com/bcqfw47

New book explores the shifting role of the patient thanks to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and warns that this phenomenon shouldn't be ignored.

01/28/2013

Is it harder to pass through the eye of a needle than for radiologists to regain control of interventional radiology? As a child I liked to sew, making an idea a three-dimensional a concept. Threading the needle to bring a … Continue reading →

01/28/2013

Proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 Requirements Criticiized as Too Strict. http://tinyurl.com/as55skb

Rigid requirements to meet electronic health record measures will trip up physicians attempting to stop upcoming penalties, warn the AMA and others in organized medicine.

01/23/2013

Using Digital Health to create engagement, interoperability, and care coordination. http://tinyurl.com/ay28g6x

Payers such as UnitedHealthcare are enabling connections among patients, providers, and employers. Insurers embrace data and the better healthcare dec