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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Supreme Court to Hear PPACA Arguments

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today that it will consider insurance questions pertaining to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

HHS to Award $1 Billion For 'Innovative' Projects

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday made available $1 billion for innovative health care projects.

Standardizing QA and QC for Technologists

iCRco

Much has been written about improving quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) in radiology, but little attention has been paid to the processes for which the technologist is responsible—in spite of the technologist’s critical role in ensuring that imaging devices are properly calibrated. Nikunj Desai, algorithms developer for iCRco

Adapting IT for Radiology’s Future

With the RSNA® 2011 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, right around the corner, radiology groups and hospitals around the country are again preparing to seek the solutions that they need to survive in the new health-care paradigm—which revolves around the triple aim of reform: improving efficiency, honing quality, and

Contract Decisions: The Data-driven Approach

MMP

In making the decision to take or pass on a new hospital contract, radiology groups often let emotion supersede reason, Jana Landreth, CPA, director of practice management at Medical Management Professionals, Inc (MMP), Atlanta, Georgia, explains. “The factor that most often challenges these decisions is emotion,” she says. “It manifests itself as

Evaluating a New Partner: Financial and Other Considerations

VMG

Whether an entity is being partnered or acquired, up-front money is always the first consideration. While no one denies the importance of dollars, Todd J. Sorensen, a partner at VMG Health (Nashville, Tennessee), warns his clients that even the most lucrative deals can go sour if cultures clash and operational issues make life miserable.

Spotlight on Quality: Improving Collaboration to Manage Dose

Radisphere

On September 1, 2011, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert related to radiation dose from diagnostic imaging. “If a patient receives repeated doses, harm can occur as the cumulative effect of those multiple doses over time,” the alert states. “Conversely, using insufficient radiation may increase the risk of misdiagnosis, delayed

Financing Equipment Purchases: The Changing Landscape

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

As health care continues to struggle with a hobbled economic outlook, few aspects of operations have remained unscathed—and those include the financial processes related to the acquisition of new imaging equipment, according to Mark Hoffman, senior vice president of the health-care group at Key Equipment Finance (Superior, Colorado). “In the past

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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.