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.
Advocates say the shift to CCTA can translate into a broader financial impacts, with some cath labs potentially seeing margin increases of as much as 40%.
RadNet Chaiman and CEO Howard Berger, MD, explains why the company has invested tens of millions into DeepHealth to rapidly build up a new business model.
The Los Angeles-based imaging group believes the move will make its DeepHealth subsidiary the “largest provider of radiology clinical AI solutions worldwide.”
Achieving unprecedented clinical and business efficiencies. Winning new business. Brandishing vanguard-level technology prowess while employing zero IT staff. Such are the returns mid-size radiology practices are realizing from their selection of the cloud-based, hardware-agnostic IRP/Plexus Imaging Workflow Management system.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) board of directors has unanimously voted that it does not support the proposal by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) and American Board of Radiology (ABR) to develop a new single training pathway that incorporates both nuclear medicine (NM) and diagnostic radiology (DR).
If you think your patients and patient information are secure from hackers, you may want to stop and take a closer look. According to a presentation made by two security researchers at DerbyCon 5.0 in Louisville, Ky., many healthcare provider computer systems and medical devices in the United States are vulnerable to hackers.
The time has come for the profession of radiology to embrace a label it has been furiously trying to beat back for years: commoditization. The battle against those who wield it as a pejorative is not just futile, it's also counterproductive.
Intense pressure to move from fee-for-service to value-based care and reimbursement driving commercial payer, hospital system and group practice consolidations are forcing independent radiology practices of all sizes to reassess, and where required, increase their relevance to the systems they serve in order to remain successfully independent.
The Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) issued a statement Friday saying it “recognizes and appreciates” a significant change CMS made in the 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule.
The question in the headline is not open-ended and philosophical. It is multiple-choice and strategic, as any given hospital or multi-hospital system now inevitably perceives its contracted radiology practices as occupying ground in one of only three possible capacities.
