Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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The Hospital As a Business

The rhetoric has been pretty hot as the presidential candidates face off in the final sprint to the finish line. Much of the discussion concerns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but no small amount of attention has also been paid to a debate about the respective roles of business and government, beyond health care, in the broader

ACPE Becomes Affiliate of ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) have agreed to make ACPE the newest affiliate organization of the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI).

Radisphere Launches the Radiology Quality Institute

Radisphere has launched the Radiology Quality Institute (RQI), a collaborative research organization dedicated to the identification and promotion of radiology quality standards in order to improve health care delivery.

23 Health Policy Experts Recommend Competitive Bidding for Imaging

Among the 11 ideas for bending the cost curve in health care offered in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine are several that directly concern medical imaging providers -- most notably the proposal to institute competitive bidding for all “commodities” and create price transparency for consumers.

Adventist Health Will Face Charges of Falsely Billing for Imaging Services, Drugs

A Florida judge has denied hospital operator Adventist Health System’s motion to dismiss a 2010 whistle-blower case filed against it by a radiologist and a billing coding and reimbursement compliance officer. The suit alleges that Adventist Health routinely billed government payors for computer aided detection that was never performed and for a

RadNet and Barnabas Health Begin Joint Venture

RadNet, Inc. and Barnabas Health announced the operational commencement of their joint venture in New Jersey with the sale of RadNet’s West Orange, NJ, imaging center to Barnabas Health and the establishment of the joint venture’s first owned facility in Cedar Knolls, NJ.

Consulting Radiologists Names New Chief of Strategy & Business Development

Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. has hired Karen Flanagan Kleinhans, MHA, as Chief of Strategy and Business Development. She will be responsible for CRL’s overall strategic direction, business development and marketing plans, the company says.

ACR Launches Institute to Examine Value of Imaging

As pressure mounts to control health care costs, the American College of Radiology is taking action to accumulate real data on the impact of medical imaging on health care quality, delivery and cost. Today it announced that it is establishing the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) to “examine the role of radiology in new health care

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Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.