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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CD/PACS Integration May Reduce Emergency Room Imaging Rates

Successful integration of CDs into PACS has the potential to reduce the number of imaging studies performed in hospital emergency departments, according to a two-part study conducted at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and published in the May issue of Radiology.

HHS Launches Nationwide Initiative To Reduce Medical Errors

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last week announced the launch of Partners for Patients, a new program aimed at eliminating medical errors and reducing healthcare costs on a national scale.

Application Shown To Increase Lung Nodule Detection

Using a bone suppression application with chest x-rays significantly increases the detection of lung nodules proven to be primary lung cancer, according to a peer-reviewed study funded by Riverain Medical, a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) and advanced visualization technologies.

Federal Regulations ‘Burdensome’To Physicians, AMA Members Say

Unfunded federal mandates, the elimination of Medicare payment for physician consultations, and incompatible and inconsistent quality initiatives offer a roadmap for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to make strategic changes that benefit the entire Medicare system, according to a letter sent to CMS by the American Medical

Teleradiology App Receives CE Mark

Aycan Medical Systems late last week announced that it has received CE clearance to market its mobile imaging app in Europe and is awaiting FDA clearance to do the same in the U.S.

Developing a Data-storage Strategy

Cloud-based storage requires evaluation, just as any other storage strategy does, according to James T. Whitfill, MD, CIO of Scottsdale Medical Imaging Ltd (SMIL) in Arizona. “You have to understand how the cloud provider replicates data to different locations, so you trust that there really are multiple copies of those data; that they are kept

What Emergency Physicians Want From Radiology

Radisphere

Results of a study¹ released in Chicago, Illinois, during the 2010 annual conference of the RSNA confirm what many in both the radiology and emergency-medicine communities already knew: Utilization of imaging in the emergency department has exploded. According to the Radiology study,¹ emergency-department visits that included CT imaging increased

Imaging on the Move: Q & A with RadNet CFO Mark Stolper

VMG

As the trend of consolidation among imaging centers continues, RadNet, Inc (Los Angeles, California) is at the leading edge, having added 24 freestanding outpatient centers in 2010 alone. The company, founded in 1984, today owns and/or operates a network of more than 200 quality-oriented, cost-effective facilities, and it is poised to continue

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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.