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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S&P Charts 6 Percent Annual Jump in Healthcare Costs in April 2012

The average, per capita cost of healthcare services—including Medicare and privately insured patients—is up six percent year-over-year in the month of April 2012, as measured by the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index.

RamSoft Closes Teleradiology Contract with Mexican Government Hospitals

Canadian teleradiology vendor RamSoft announced that it has sold its PowerServer Tele Plus real-time digital environment to Hova Health, one of the largest teleradiology groups in Mexico.

Imaging Advantage Lands $6M Health Care Innovation Award

Among the second wave of DHHS Health Care Innovation Awards announced this week was a $6 million meaningful use grant to the Santa Monica, CA-based Imaging Advantage.

GE Kicks off Low-Dose Blueprint with 16-CT Sale to North Shore-Long Island

From the Center for Advanced Medicine at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Success Lake, NY, GE announced Thursday a whopping 16-CT sale to the facility as a demonstration of the viability of its new low-dose facility blueprint.

AZ Family Practice Doc Launches Comparison Pricing Tool for Imaging Patients

A family physician from Show Low, AZ has launched a competitive pricing website for patients who need diagnostic imaging studies but can't afford to pay full price.

NY Breast Density Inform Law Heads to Governor Cuomo's Desk

Women’s health legislation in New York took another step forward today with the bicameral passage of a Breast Density Inform law that would place more information in the hands of patients.

Specialty Groups Praise AMA Mammography Recommendations, Say They Should Have Been Consulted Earlier

A pair of AMA policy positions announced yesterday—recommending formally that women should begin having routine mammography at age 40, and that insurers should adjust their policies to reflect this—were met with praise from imaging and disease specialty groups, who added that they should have been a part of the process from the beginning.

Norton Healthcare Acquires Lifescan Louisville

Outpatient diagnostic imaging center Lifescan Louisville has been acquired by the large not-for-profit health care system Norton Healthcare.

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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.