As valuation professionals, we actively follow publicly traded companies in the healthcare industry.  These companies provide insight into how company management and investors evaluate the opportunities and risks faced by a particular industry.  Challenges in the diagnostic imaging business are not unique; nearly all ancillary healthcare service companies are experiencing similar macroeconomic headwinds. However, ancillary healthcare stocks have continued to demonstrate gains.  

In imaging services, “getting it right” is of utmost importance when it comes to selecting the appropriate equipment, administering the correct radiation dose and delivering excellent patient care. Getting it right also is an imperative where staffing is concerned.

No event of the past week has greater potential to transform healthcare delivery than the news from California that seven competitive health systems have allied with Anthem Blue Cross to launch a new health plan, Anthem Vivety.

In recognition of National Health IT Week, CMS has launched three new resources designed to ease participation in the Physician Quality Reporting System. The training modules are offered through the agency’s eHealth University, which provides education on all of CMS’s eHealth programs, including Meaningful Use, Administrative Simplification and ICD-10.

An historic alliance between Anthem Blue Cross and seven health systems has formed a new managed care plan aimed at employers in Southern California—and the nation’s second largest healthcare buyer has signed on as the first customer.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESSWIRE)--PenRad Technologies, Inc, the market leader in Mammography Information Systems (MIS), today announced its partnership with Clinithink to refine the process of clinical documentation for radiologists in real-time. PenRad is embedding Clinithink's CNLP (Clinical Natural Language Processing) platform into its MIS solution to increase productivity, accuracy and efficiency of the mammography reporting workflow for its existing install base.

A private practice in Alabama invests in IT and relationships in advance of participating in a Medicaid regional-care organization.

Radiology departments and practices have begun to gravitate away from fee for service and into the realm of risk and value-based medicine.