Radiology 2011: the big picture.

Lin, Eugene · AJR Am J Roentgenol · 2011

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

This article will take a big-picture view of the issues of utilization, cost, value, quality, innovation, self-referral, specialization, commoditization, competition, and corporatization and suggest how they are closely interrelated. These issues may have a major effect on the practice of radiology. It may be both presumptuous and platitudinous to suggest that our profession currently faces some of the greatest challenges in its history.

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