August 2004

Features

Cover Story

	Northern Exposures: An Alaskan Leap of Faith
	by George Wiley
	AOIC is Alaska's first independent outpatient imaging center. What makes it so unusual is that it was started by administrators and technologists who mortgaged their houses and risked their careers on the American dream.

	Practice Management: Building IT Support
	by Rich Smith
	Practices that invest in information and image management systems must also invest in personnel to support those systems or fail to accrue their maximum benefit.


	Going Filmless: Lessons from a Swedish Breast Center
	by Gerald Kolb JD
	Important workflow and efficiency lessons are to be learned from the Swedish experience with digital mammography.

Departments

	Lateral View
	Survival of the Slickest
	by Cheryl Proval
	If things keep shaping up the way they are, you will need more than a flak jacket and a black belt in karate to keep the neighborly specialties out of your business.


	STAT Read
	by Arati Murti
	Election year pushes malpractice skirmishes into the trenches; top 10 MRI procedures in 2003.


	Imaging Cancer
	Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Optimal Contrast Strategies for Detection and Staging Using Multislice CT
	by Janio Szklaruk PhD, MD, Paul Silverman MD
	The utilization of optimum imaging techniques that include multiphasic imaging will enhance the role of MSCT in the diagnosis and management of patients with HCC.


	Imaging Business
	Radiation Oncology: Basic Financial Management
	by John Felton
	A grasp of the principles of financial management is required to understand the level of procedural volume needed to make a radiation oncology program self-supporting and how the program might benefit from changes and/or capital acquisitions


	Technology Review