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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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Breast Density Legislation Makes a Comeback on the California Ballot

This week, California (re)joined Michigan, Ohio, Florida, and Maine as one of a handful of U.S. states to put forth a bill that would notify women of their breast density when they receive the results of their mammograms.

As Health IT Emerges, MU Payouts Starting to Make Headlines

Some of the earliest adopters of EHR are starting to collect dividends from their investments this week.

EHR Spending, DHSS Enforcement on the Rise

Spending on EHR software and security measures is expected to top $70 billion nationwide by 2015, according to a report from Princeton, NJ consulting group the Boyd Company.

RadNet, Barnabas Health Partner to Deliver Imaging Services in NJ

RadNet solidified its market position in the most densely populated state in the country by forming an extensive partnership with the largest non-profit health system in New Jersey.

SIR Presenters Tout New Directions for Interventional Radiology

Underscoring a press statement from SIR President-elect Marshall Hicks that interventional radiology is “the future of health care,” researchers at SIR 2012 debuted findings from a handful of studies spanning new IR treatment options in multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic obesity, and CT-guided lung biopsy, among others.

Hospital Integration Drives Insurer, Hospital Group to the Brink in PA

Even as the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this week, the potentially ugly side of healthcare integration is snarling in Pittsburgh, PA, the Wall Street Journal reports.

MMP Exec Randal Roat Named Strategic Radiology COO

Strategic Radiology (SR) of Minneapolis, MN will have a new COO this April.

BCBS Tries to Drive Down Costs with Cash Incentives

Insurers have tried every kind of incentive under the sun to drive consumer adoption of lower-cost healthcare. Now they might be skipping the pretense and going straight to cash rebates.

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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.