Douglas G. Smith
President, Barrington Lakes Group
Douglas G. Smith is the president of Barrington Lakes Group, a healthcare consulting firm specializing in integrated imaging strategy development, strategic planning, imaging center development and management, and profit improvement implementation for physician organizations, hospitals, and health systems and other healthcare-related organizations. The Barrington Lakes Group is one of the leading Chicago-based radiology business consulting firms, and is fast becoming one of the leading physician business consulting and outsourced oversight management firms in the nation.
Mr. Smith has an extensive background and expertise in no-nonsense business planning and operations profit improvement for both large and small healthcare entities. He brings over 30 years of demonstrated professional experience as an operations improvement specialist, business strategist, business turnaround facilitator, merger and acquisition specialist, and operations executive to the healthcare market.
His specialized professional background and experience include extensive business management operations and oversight, managed care contract strategy development and negotiations, physician/hospital and physician/specialist joint venture development, health system integrated imaging strategy development, strategic business action planning, and federal government and international legislative and policy liaison.
Mr. Smith is a graduate of Ohio University and of the Crosby Quality College Executive Program. He has been repeatedly elected into Who’s Who in National Healthcare. He is a member of several professional associations, including the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the National Health Lawyers Association (NHLA), and the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA).
He is an accomplished professional speaker and lecturer to local, national, and international audiences and has authored and co-authored articles and business publications on a variety of profit-enhancement processes and practices. Smith has been a featured speaker for the American Medical Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Congress of Imaging Administrators, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the Institute of Health Care Industry Advisors, International Business Conferences on Radiology Practice Management, the Radiology Business Management Association, and the Washington G-2 Reports Diagnostic Imaging Leadership Forum.
02/19/08 - Overcoming the Commoditization of Radiology
