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.

AMA To Host Webinar On Radiation Emergencies

The American Medical Association (AMA) will next week host a free webinar focusing on radiation preparedness in the U.S., as well as the implications and treatment of radiation exposure.

GE Healthcare Launches Vascular Visualization Software

GE Healthcare this week introduced a vascular visualization software application designed to enhance digital subtraction angiography and, in turn, offer to interventional radiologists what the company deems a “new vision” of vascular flow.

ACR Advocates Inclusion Of Imaging Data, Specialist Considerations In Meaningful Use

Preliminary recommendations for Stage Two of Meaningful Use are a step in the right direction, but significant gaps in the draft advice remain, ACR IT and Informatics Committee-Government Relations Subcommittee Chair Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, told advisors to the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) in a meeting last week.

ACO Pilots Show Lower Cost Increases, Improved Care

Preliminary results from two accountable care organization (ACO) pilot projects undertaken by CIGNA indicate that both are achieving lowered growth in healthcare costs as well as simultaneous improvements in the caliber of patient care.

Insight Imaging Emerges from Chapter 11, Ready to Buy

Insight Health Services Holdings Corp., a provider of fixed-site and mobile diagnostic imaging services under the Insight Imaging name, late last week announced its emergence from Chapter 11 restructuring, thereby eliminating nearly $300 million of long-term debt. A new, $17.5 million revolving credit facility with Healthcare Finance Group will be

Radiation Threat From Airport Scanners Not Significant, Study Finds

Airport scanners pose no significant radiation threat to air travelers, according to a study published the March 28 online issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

AMA Launches First-Ever Physician App

The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced its first-ever app designed specifically for a physician audience.

Study Links Parenchymal Pattern Analysis, Cancer Risk Assessment

Analyzing mammographic parenchymal patterns to measure the density of breast tissue has the potential to help clinicians better determine a woman's breast cancer risk as well as lead to better patient care by enabling more accurate density measurements.

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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.