Up and Running

December 12, 2008 Up and Running BY ROBERT ANTHONY Robert Anthony, a former associate editor for Physicians Practice, has written for the healthcare and practice management industries for six years. His work has appeared in Physicians Practice, edge, Humana's Your Practice, and Publisher's Weekly. He is based in Baltimore, Md. He can be reached via editor@physicianspractice.com. HOW TO KEEP YOUR RADIOLOGY EQUIPMENT IN SHAPE Whether it's as portable as a mobile PET scanner or as massive (and expensive) as an MRI machine, your equipment is useless to you if it doesn't function properly. "If you are not scanning on that machine, you are not making any revenue off it," says Richard Morin, who is chair of the American College of Radiology Safety Committee and in practice at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. But the inner workings of such equipment are complicated, to say the least. Short of getting a degree in engineering, how can you make sure your equipment is in working condition so it can continue to work for you?

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