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.

MITA Responds to Lancet Study, Emphasizes Strengthened Standards

A Lancet study about the long-term cancer risks associated with CT scans for pediatric patients continues to draw reactions from the imaging world.

CDI-Insight Merger Promises Bigger Presence, Bigger Opportunities

With leverage provided by a private financier, the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of Minneapolis, MN will merge with Insight Imaging of Lake Forest, CA, forming an imaging chain that extends through half the country.

Intelerad Announces Tomosynthesis support in IntelePACS

Intelerad Medical Systems announced at SIIM 2012 the support for Tomosynthesis in the IntelePACS Breast Imaging module.

RadNet's Begins Rollout of eRAD's Meaningful Use-Ready Solution For Its Imaging Centers

RadNet, Inc., a provider for a network of 232 owned and operated outpatient imaging centers, reported in a press release that it has successfully implemented a Meaningful Use-ready workflow solution suite from eRAD, Inc (a wholly owned subsidiary of RadNet), in the first step to roll out the technology across all its centers.

Peake Demos its Open-Source Cloud Solutions for Image Sharing

Peake Healthcare Innovations is demonstrating their cloud-based Image Management as a Service (IMaaS) at SIIM 2012. The PeakeSecure portfolio powers a medical image-sharing platform that includes a mix of services from image management and disaster recovery to advanced 3D visualization and cross-enterprise image exchange and workflow.

Agfa, Dell Partner for Cloud-Based Image Management System

Agfa HealthCare, vendor of the Imaging Clinical Information System (ICIS) platform, announced today an agreement with Dell for the hosting of its distributed EMR image-management software; in turn, Agfa will offer ICIS as well as the Dell Cloud Clinical Archive Portfolio.

House Passes H.R. 436, Fight Expected in Senate over Medical Device Tax Repeal

By a vote of 270-146 today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 436, the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2011, which would repeal a 2.3 percent tax on the sale and importation of medical devices in the United States.

Lancet Study Shows Cancer Risk Increases After Childhood CT Studies

In a joint study of the long-term health outcomes of pediatric cancer patients dating back as far as 1985, radiation from diagnostic imaging scans nearly tripled children’s risks for leukemia and brain tumors, according to a study published in The Lancet.

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.

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.