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Radiology Partners Enters the Lending Business

Ben White

Here’s a slide from their big meeting earlier this year: I know some people in the radiology community think that when the debts come due that RP will go bankrupt and disappear, but that’s simply not going to happen. The secondary question is what happens to those rads waiting out their non-competes: Teleradiology forever?

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The Little White Lies of Radiology Partners

Ben White

A brief and hopefully final private equity in radiology post for now. You are what you are, and pretending you’re not a nationwide private equity conglomerative corporate practice in a job listing for a teleradiology position is only something you do because you don’t want to get filtered out of people’s search queries.

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Is Radiology Still a Viable Career?

Ben White

Radiology is as popular as ever with medical students and enjoyed a very competitive and completely-filled match last year. But I also know that students and residents–because they keep asking–are wondering: Given ChatGPT and other recent seemingly rapid advances in AI, is radiology still a viable career choice?

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Teleradiology medical malpractice more frequently leads to higher payouts, patient death

Radiology Business

Findings are based on an analysis of 135 teleradiology malpractice cases and 3,474 more in regular radiology, conducted by Harvard Medical School and published in Radiology.

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Teleradiology as a First Job

Ben White

This is a valid knock on teleradiology. When we draw a comparison between a typical academic center or hospital-based practice and teleradiology, we miss the fact that many, many radiology jobs are not team-based daily work. But ultimately, the distinction isn’t really teleradiology versus in-person.

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Yellowcross Launches to Streamline Teleradiology Service Management

Imaging Technology

Most recently, Vaules was Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at ONRAD , a national teleradiology practice. Thomas was most recently Vice President of Operations and Integrations for Radiology Partners , the largest national radiology practice in the U.S. The two first worked together in 2006 at Nighthawk Radiology Services.

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Teleradiology to private practice and back: Why I returned to vRad.

vRad

After residency, I was full of energy and had a solid plan: I’d work in private practice and take on a part-time job in teleradiology. That arrangement worked very well, and through remote radiology I was debt-free in less than a year. With my goal accomplished I left vRad behind to focus on my private radiology practice.