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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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Notable names in the news: From Avenda and CMS to UltraSight and Whiterabbit

Developments that broke softly but may soon make waves in radiology.

U.S. News & World Report children’s hospitals cardiology heart surgery

New Orleans looks to Cleveland for pediatric coverage

Children’s Hospital New Orleans is tapping Cleveland Clinic as a way to make sure Pelican State families have ready access to board-certified pediatric radiologists.

Carestream seeking Chapter 11 protection

Radiography OEM Carestream Health Inc. has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization with a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware.

Chinese medical imaging OEM raises $1.6B on first day of trading

United Imaging Healthcare of Shanghai just became the seventh Chinese company this year to enjoy an IPO topping $1 billion—and the third best-performing of the bunch.

Notable names in the news: From AIRS Medical to Sectra and a few in between

Radiology business developments that broke softly but may soon make waves.

ACR, other groups cry foul over insurers’ methods for calculating out-of-network payments

Payers have been using rates agreed to by PCPs to justify underpaying specialists such as anesthesiologists, emergency physicians and, yes, radiologists.

Nuance and Covera join forces to improve radiology quality ‘at scale’

PowerScribe purveyor Nuance is partnering on widescale care improvement with a healthcare AI startup that made its name showing Walmart where, and where not, to send its employees for high-accuracy radiology.

Enrolling with Medicare as an IDTF? Dot i’s and cross t’s around physician supervision, advises healthcare attorney

Why does CMS allow radiologists to provide imaging supervision at an unlimited number of sites?

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Cardiovascular Business
GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Health Imaging
Outdated manuals pose MRI safety risks for patients with medical implants

After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

Health Imaging
What might reimbursements for proposed MRI safety CPT codes look like?

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

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