BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1791588:Event:58828 DTSTAMP:20260411T143455Z SUMMARY:5TH Annual Economics Summit 2010: Strategies for Successful Ra diology Practices in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:5TH Annual Economics Summit 2010: Strategies for Successfu l Radiology Practices in the 21st Century\nWednesday, April 14, 2010 - Saturday, April 17, 2010\n\nMEETING SPONSOR:\nEducational Symposia\nL ucy Smith\n5620 West Sligh Ave\nTampa, FL 33634\nToll-Free 800-388-590 1\n813-806-1000\nFAX 813-806-1001\nEmail: lucy@edusymp.com\nWebsite: h ttp://www.edusymp.com/meetingview.asp?productid=3845\n\nCONFERENCE CEN TER:\nmail: travel@edusymp.com\nWebsite: http://www.edusymp.com/meetin gextra.asp?productid=3878\n\nMEETING BROCHURE:\nTo view and print the meeting brochure, click here:\nhttp://www.edusymp.com/meetingview.asp? productid=3845\n\nMEETING DESCRIPTION:\nABOUT THE MEETING\n\nHealthcar e reform is front and center on the national agenda; and this meeting will explore its implications for radiology and radiologists. However, this new administration is one challenge facing our specialty. Turf w ars are intensifying, hospital administrators are becoming more demand ing, and commoditization and corporatization are harsh realities.\n\nI mportant issues such as understanding and effectively using principles of negotiations, preparing practices for reimbursement pressures and developing strategies for dealing with turf battles will be explored. New concepts including pay-for-performance, physician extenders and th e new economic realities will be discussed.\n\nThe times ahead will be more difficult for radiologists; and, this course is structured to pr esent practical solutions to the problems facing the specialty. The co mprehensive course syllabus should provide substantial take-home infor mation that registrants can use as a resource for improving this struc ture and operations of their practices. The course will be interactive , utilizing the audience response system to provide immediate feedback . The registrants will be able to participate in the popular socio-eco nomic data project, comparing their practice with those of the other a ttendees from throughout the country. The faculty is comprised of nati onally recognized teachers who have implemented those skills successfu lly in their own practice and in many others across the country.\n\nTA RGET AUDIENCE\n\nThis CME activity is primarily intended and designed to educate radiologists, hospital CEOs, CFOs, and Board members, corpo rate executives, radiology business managers, reimbursement decision m akers, and technical directors of radiology departments.\n\nOBJECTIVES \n\nAttendees should, at the completion of this course, be able to:\n\ nDiscuss the impact of the Obama Administration on the practice of rad iology\nDevelop strategies to deal with turf incursions\nAdopt crisis management principles to deal with difficult times\nApply negotiation strategies to deal more effectively with hospital administrators\nTake definitive measures to de-commoditize their practices\nDevelop metric s to measure and manage productivity\nDescribe the relationship of sel f-referral and over-utilization\nAdopt action plans to cope with futur e trends such as commoditization and corporatization\n\nINSTRUCTORS:\n Allen, Berlin, Brant-Zawadzki, Duszak, Levin, Lexa, Muroff\n\nCME HOUR S: 17.25\n\nLECTURE TOPICS:\nnot listed\n\nFor more information visit https://community.radrounds.com/events/5th-annual-economics-summit DTSTART:20100414T040000Z DTEND:20100418T035900Z CATEGORIES:strategies, for, successful, radiology, practices, in, the, 21st, century LOCATION:Wynn Las Vegas WEBSITE:http://www.edusymp.com/meetingextra.asp?productid=3878 URL:http://www.edusymp.com/meetingextra.asp?productid=3878 CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Educational Symposia ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="radRound s Radiology Events":https://community.radrounds.com/profile/radRoundsR adiologyEvents END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR