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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Cardinal Health to Manufacture, Distribute Eli Lilly and Company's Brain Imaging Agent Amyvid

Cardinal Health announced that it will manufacture and distribute Amyvid, Eli Lilly and Company's new diagnostic imaging agent that aids in the evaluation of adult patients with cognitive impairment who may have Alzheimer's Disease and other causes of cognitive decline.

New Poll Shows Price is a Factor in Treatment and Patients Will Shop Around

The percentage of consumers who shop around for healthcare prices is up from 2010 levels, according to a poll from NPR-Thomson Reuters, and patients are seeking information almost equally from doctors and insurers.

House Vote on H.R. 436 Reflects a Home State Issue with National Impact

After weeks of public campaigning, the movement to repeal a medical device manufacturer tax that will impact all makers of medical devices, including imaging equipment manufacturers, is scheduled to come to a vote this week in the House of Representatives.

Force 3 Acquires secureRAD, Expands into Cloud Image-Sharing

Maryland-based IT developer Force 3, a provider of dental imaging for military customers, has acquired secureRAD of Annapolis, MD, which develops secure, cloud-based image-sharing technologies.

GE, Affibody to Collaborate on Her2 PET Agent

GE Healthcare signed a deal with Swedish contrast agent developer Affibody AB for the development of a PET imaging agent that targets Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (Her2), a breast cancer biomarker.

Mach 7 Technologies, Logicalis Sign Cross-Marketing Agreement

Global image-sharing provider Mach 7 Technologies inked a cross-marketing deal today with IT solutions provider Logicalis for the provision of vendor-neutral cloud archiving solutions worldwide.

The key products involved in the deal include the M7T Keystone Suite Enterprise Clinical Imaging Platform and the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud solution.

Radisphere Nets Red Herring Top 100 Award

Radiology practice group Radisphere has been named a 2012 Red Herring Top 100 North America award winner.

MU Docs Suspected of Medicare Fraud--Par for the Course in the Reform Era?

Radiologists Kenneth Rall and Michael Richards were terminated from the Missouri University Health System today after a yearlong internal investigation revealed that they had committed Medicare fraud.

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Health Imaging
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.