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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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Groups Seek to Scrap Medicare Advisory Panel

Twenty medical specialty groups today urged the Congressional Supercommittee to scrap the controversial Medicare payment advisory panel (IPAB) established under health care reform law.

Supreme Court Hears Medicaid Case

Lawyers for California and the federal government today urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to allow patients and doctors to initiating lawsuits over cuts to Medicaid payments.

FDA Issues Guidance on Low- to Moderate-Risk Devices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has issued for manufacturers a draft guidance that updates and streamlines the evaluation of automatic class III designation, the de novo review process used for certain innovative, low- to moderate-risk medical devices that do not meet the requirements for clearance under the 510(k)

ASTRO, NRC Uninterested in Creating Punitive Radiation Oncology Environment

The culture of radiation therapy may be changing, but neither the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) nor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the primary federal agency responsible for regulating many technologies used in radiation therapy, is interested in creating a punitive environment for radiation oncologists. Rather, the

Meaningful Use, Aging Equipment Spur RIS Adoption

A new report from CapSite, a Burlington, Vermont-based health care technology research and advisory firm, indicates that an installed base with rapidly aging software, as well as pressure to satisfy U.S. IT Meaningful Use requirements, may propel the U.S. radiology information system (RIS) market forward.

ACR Revises Accreditation Criteria

The American College of Radiology (ACR) earlier this week announced changes to accreditation criteria. The changes come as a result of a challenge posed to the society’s committees by Board of Chancellors Chairman John Patti, MD, to update the criteria to make accreditation more scalable in light of the Medicare mandate that most practices become

HHS Awards Funds for Radiation Syndrome Research

A total of $56.3 million in contracts has been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund the development of new drugs for treating injuries associated with acute radiation syndrome.

Health Care Organizations Ill-Prepared to Protect Patient Data, Privacy

A majority of health care organizations remain underprepared to safeguard patient privacy and secure patient data in the wake of new uses for digital health information and expanded access to confidential patient information, reveals a report released by Price Waterhouse Cooper's Health Research Institute in New York City, New York. Privacy and

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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.

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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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‘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.