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.

FDA Grants Pre-Market Notice to NinePoint OCT Device

The Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) pre-market notification for a new diagnostic imaging tool that reports to look deep into diseased tissue.

Cancer Screening Increases with Virtual Colonography Over Colonoscopy

It’s no surprise that men would prefer not to receive a colonoscopy, but just how much they prefer the alternative CT colonography was the subject of a study in the current issue of The Lancet.

DR Systems Earns Patent for Resolution ID

With the age of digital imaging comes new considerations that radiologists had not previously thought about, such as resolution size of a digital image.

RadSite Reviews More Than 60,000 Image Systems

Radsite, one of the leaders in improving quality among imaging facilities, announced that it has reviewed more than 60,000 imaging systems and about 23,000 facilities.

Uninsured, Medicaid Patients Receive Less Medical Imaging in the ED

Researchers looking at a national survey of 600 hospitals found the uninsured and Medicaid enrollees receive fewer medical imaging procedures during emergency room visits.

Breast Cancer Screening Among 26 Medicaid Measures

Breast cancer screening made the list of 26 Medicaid quality measures that states may begin reporting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services next year. Measurements excluded other forms of diagnostic imaging.

Study Examines Post Deficit Reduction Effects

A new study concludes that in-office based imaging facilities fared better than hospital out-patient centers even after three years of steep cuts to in-office care under the Deficit Reduction Act.

Alberta Mounts Large Scale Review of Radiology After Major Errors

The Alberta government in Canadian has called for a sweeping review of all diagnostic imaging and pathology tests in the province after multiple errors were found, which in several cases led to different diagnosis.

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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.