Radiology Operations: What You Don’t Know Could Be Costing You Millions Export

@article{citeulike:1590786, abstract = {• Rapid growth in advanced imaging procedures has left hospital radiology departments struggling to keep up with demand, resulting in loss of patients to facilities that can offer service more quickly. • While the departments appear to be working at full capacity, an operational analysis of over 400 hospital radiology departments in the US by GE Healthcare has determined that, paradoxically, many departments are in fact underutilized and operating far below their potential capacity. • While CT cycle time in hospitals that were studied averaged 35 minutes, top performing hospitals operated the same equipment at a cycle time of 15 minutes, yielding approximately double the throughput volume. • Factors leading to suboptimal performance include accounting metrics that mask true performance, leadership focus on capital investment rather than operations, under staffing, under scheduling, poorly aligned incentives, a fragmented view of operations, lack of awareness of latent opportunities, and lack of sufficient skills and processes to implement improvements. • The study showed how modest investments in radiology operations can dramatically improve access to services and profitability.}, author = {Joffe, Sam and Drew, Donna and Bansal, Manju and Hase, Michael}, citeulike-article-id = {1590786}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ahraonline.org/ConfEd/Education/2007JulyAugust1/2007JulyAugust1.pdf}, journal = {Radiology Management}, keywords = {finance, management, radiology}, month = {July}, posted-at = {2007-08-24 23:55:18}, priority = {5}, title = {Radiology Operations: What You Don't Know Could Be Costing You Millions}, url = {http://www.ahraonline.org/ConfEd/Education/2007JulyAugust1/2007JulyAugust1.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1590786 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1590786 N2 - • Rapid growth in advanced imaging procedures has left hospital radiology departments struggling to keep up with demand, resulting in loss of patients to facilities that can offer service more quickly. • While the departments appear to be working at full capacity, an operational analysis of over 400 hospital radiology departments in the US by GE Healthcare has determined that, paradoxically, many departments are in fact underutilized and operating far below their potential capacity. • While CT cycle time in hospitals that were studied averaged 35 minutes, top performing hospitals operated the same equipment at a cycle time of 15 minutes, yielding approximately double the throughput volume. • Factors leading to suboptimal performance include accounting metrics that mask true performance, leadership focus on capital investment rather than operations, under staffing, under scheduling, poorly aligned incentives, a fragmented view of operations, lack of awareness of latent opportunities, and lack of sufficient skills and processes to implement improvements. • The study showed how modest investments in radiology operations can dramatically improve access to services and profitability. JF - Radiology Management TI - Radiology Operations: What You Don’t Know Could Be Costing You Millions KW - finance KW - management KW - radiology AU - Joffe, Sam AU - Drew, Donna AU - Bansal, Manju AU - Hase, Michael PY - 2007/07//July-August UR - http://www.ahraonline.org/ConfEd/Education/2007JulyAugust1/2007JulyAugust1.pdf ER -