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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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Study Says Medicare Would Benefit From RBM Adoption

The fee-for-service Medicare program and its beneficiaries would reap significant savings if Radiology Benefits Management (RBM) programs were adopted by Medicare, according to a recent study by Magellan Health Services. Commissioned by Magellan's NIA subsidiary and conducted by Milliman, Inc., an independent actuarial and consulting firm, the

Stringent Gadolinium Contrast Guidelines An Antidote To NSF

Measuring a patient’s glomerular rate before administering a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) can eliminate new cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), according to a study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School and slated for publication in the July issue of Radiology.

Siemens Healthcare Names New CEO

Siemens Healthcare has announced the appointment of Gregory Sorensen, MD, as CEO of Siemens Healthcare in the U.S., effective June 1. Sorensen succeeds Randy Hill, who had served as interim CEO.

Penalties Soar, HIPAA Gets Update With HITECH Act Provisions

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Soaring penalties and new privacy, security, and breach-notification provisions intended to modernize HIPAA have raised the stakes in the patient-privacy arena and rewritten the HIPAA rulebook. Radiology departments, practices, and their business associates are well advised to sit up and take notice.

Digital Marketing To Dominate In Two Years

Reflecting a trend taking hold in many vertical sectors, digital channels will overtake traditional ones in conveying hospitals’ marketing messages, according to a survey of more than 100 hospitals and healthcare systems conducted by Farmington, Connecticut-based Acsys Interactive, an interactive marketing and development company.

Radiologists Urge Modifications To Meaningful Use Draft Guidelines

Representatives from five medical specialties—radiologists among them—last week offered their final proposed changes to the draft guidelines for Stage 2 of the U.S. government's Meaningful Use Stimulus Program. The contingent of physicians—who aside from radiologists included pathologists, ophthalmologists, surgeons, and specialists in the areas of

PCORI Names Selby Executive Director

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to conduct comparative clinical effectiveness research, has named Joe V. Selby, MD, M.P.H., as its first executive director.

Medicare Trust Fund To Run Out In 2024, Report Says

Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Fund (HI Trust Fund) will be totally depleted in 2024, five years earlier than originally projected, according to the Medicare Trustees Report issued last Friday.

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