Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

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McKesson Announces McKesson Cardiology 13.0

McKesson announced the release of McKesson Cardiology 13.0, a single database solution for cardiac and peripheral catheterization, hemodynamics monitoring, electrophysiology (EP), echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, nuclear cardiology and ECG/stress/holter management.

Montana Interventional Lawsuit Could be Harbinger of Things to Come

Is the widely reported lawsuit pitting Montana Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology Specialists against St. Peter’s Hospital another sign of a particularly litigious future for radiology? As hospitals continue to opt for exclusive contracts, Mark F. Weiss, JD, believes the answer may indeed be yes.

AHRA 2012: Dispatches from the Exhibit Floor

The American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) annual meeting winds up today and the vendors will be packing their booths. Here are some of the news items that caught our eye at the conference.

Dept. of Veterans Affairs to Cover CT Screening for Lung Cancer

Advocates for broader coverage for low-dose CT lung cancer screening in patients with a heavy smoking history and other risk factors are cheering news that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will follow the lead of some private payors and cover the testing ahead of a Medicare coverage decision.

FDA Whistleblower Case Indicative of Larger Problems in Device Regulation

The impact of the Robert Smith-FDA whistleblower scandal has a farther reach than the stigma of internal spying, argues a Forbes op/ed piece.

Achieving True Transparency in the Radiology Billing Cycle

MMP

Transparency is a term that can be applied to almost any aspect of a business’ operations, and while it is always a worthwhile goal, it is particularly important for radiology practices to embrace and achieve transparency when it comes to the billing cycle. A practice’s financial health is significantly improved by an ongoing understanding of the

Radiology Mergers and Acquisitions: What to Expect When Venture Capital Is Involved

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On June 8, Insight Imaging and Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) announced their plans to merge. Venture capital played a key role in the transaction, with Black Diamond Capital Management, which owns a majority interest in Insight Imaging, enabling it to buy out the owners of CDI. The combined organization will be headquartered in Minneapolis,

Paperless Workflow for Interventional Radiology: Tufts Medical Center

Hi-IQ

The interventional-radiology department at Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) was an early adopter of the workflow tool HI-IQ, developed by ConexSys; however, a recent initiative to develop a paperless workflow led the department to fuller use of its features. “When I came on board two years ago, we sat down and looked at the capabilities

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Health Imaging
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.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘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.