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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Bayer Integrates Contrast Media Business into New Unit

Bayer Healthcare announced a new business unit this week at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2012 meeting in Vienna.

Wisconsin New Licensure for Technologists Consistent with 38 Other States

Wisconsin joined 38 other states when it began licensing radiologic technologists this month to continue performing radiography imaging services.

Large-Scale Effort to Catalog Neural Connections Moves Into Trial Stage

Significant investments have been made to unlock the mysteries of human genetics, behavior, and various disease states. To date, however, research into the neural pathways that comprise the brain and their connectivity had not yet reached that same level of depth.

ASNC Releases Dose-Reduction Guidelines for Nuclear Cardiology

Technological improvements in image acquisition and software processing in nuclear cardiology should allow physicians to shave patient imaging times dramatically or cut radiation doses fourfold, according to a new preferred practice statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC).

Recent Studies Refute Evidence Behind Mammography Guidelines

Two studies in the Journal of Roentgenology this month that take aim at studies that led to relaxed breast cancer screening guidelines in recent years.

Platinum Agrees to Buy DMS Health Technologies

Platinum Equity has agreed to purchase another company in the medical imaging field with DMS Health Technologies.

Canadian Company to Produce Cyclotrons for Medical Isotopes

A Canadian company has announced it plans to address the shortage in nuclear isotopes for diagnostic imaging by manufacturing cyclotrons needed to create the medical isotopes.

Price Consistency Could Save Health Care System $36 Billion

Reducing price variation in health care for the 108 million Americans with employer-sponsored coverage could save the nation as much as $36 billion per year.

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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.