Meet a teleradiology practice on the cusp of great—yet manageable—growth

Six years ago, two radiologists with dissimilar backgrounds and divergent clinical interests put their heads together and launched a new practice. One physician was an academic subspecialized in musculoskeletal reads. The other, a private practitioner, concentrated on oncologic imaging. 

The two had often crossed paths over the years before realizing both had an increasingly keen interest in one operating model that could bridge all subspecialties: teleradiology.

That’s how Transparent Imaging was born, powered by Konica Minolta.

Today the practice feeds work to almost 200 U.S. radiologists and counting. Collectively they read more than a million studies per year across all radiology subspecialties. That includes granular niches called on only occasionally such as pediatric PET, pediatric neuroimaging and fetal MRI, to name just three examples.

The practice’s present plan is to grow to the full extent of its capacity for delivering high-quality radiology reads for patients and referrers far and wide—as long as the growth doesn’t squeeze out in-touch, open-door leadership and management.

The founding leaders—body subspecialist David Zelman, DO, and MSK expert Eric Ledermann DO, MBA—shared the secrets of their success to date in an interview with Radiology Business.