BEACHWOOD, Ohio — The teleradiology company
“We’ve positioned ourselves from being a subspecialty company to being a comprehensive total solution for radiological needs for community hospitals,” said Clayton Larsen, the company’s senior vice president of marketing.
Behavioral Health, Interoperability and eConsent: Meeting the Demands of CMS Final Rule Compliance
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
Earlier this year, Franklin & Seidelmann added three Critical Access Hospitals — far-flung facilities in mountainous areas that provide acute care — in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Idaho. At the end of 2008 it announced expanded services that included final reads of scans for night-time emergency departments.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Nobody has invested as we have and has our ability to scale this thing,” said
While teleradiology is a lucrative field, it’s also a risky one. Some start-ups, such as Foundation Radiology Group in Pittsburgh, have been winning customers and investors. But others have faltered. Cleveland’s Telerad Express, which received funding two years ago through the Cleveland fund JumpStart, went out of business late last year and returned some of its investment, JumpStart spokeswoman Cathy Belk said. The company struggled to maintain its profit margins while trying to provide better service than its competitors, Belk said.