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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ANSI Project Explores Impact Of Unauthorized Health Info Access

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Shared Assessments Program earlier this week launched an initiative aimed at exploring the financial impact of unauthorized access to personal health information (PHI). Conceived with a goal of identifying frameworks for determining the economic impact of any disclosure or breach of protected

Office-Based Physicians Play Critical Economic Role

Office-based physicians play a vital role in national and state economies by supporting jobs, purchasing goods and services, and generating tax revenue, according to a recent report released by the American Medical Association. In 2009, AMA research indicates, office-based physicians contributed $1.4 trillion in economic activity and supported four

U.S. On Target For Healthcare Reform

The nation remains on track to implement healthcare reform by 2014, a top Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) executive tells healthcare officials in Tennessee this week.

Nordion Garners Approval For TheraSphere Trials

Nordion Inc. yesterday announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to conduct two Phase III clinical trials of its TheraSphere therapeutic radiopharmaceutical. Both trials are cleared under an FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

Utah Governor Signs RA Bill

Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert has signed into law House Bill 238, making Utah the 29th U.S. state to license, regulate, or recognize the radiologist assistant (RA) as a member of the radiology healthcare team.

Bayer Vital, Vital Images Announce Collaboration

The Diagnostic Imaging Business Unit of Bayer Vital GmbH, a Leverkusen, Germany-based provider of contrast agents for diagnostic imaging, and Vital Images Inc., a vendor of software for digital image post-processing in MRI and CT, have signed an agreement to collaborate on activities aimed at introducing radiologists in Germany to the combination

ACA To Bolster Healthcare Sector Employment

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will spark a modest boost in healthcare sector employment, but will have only a minimal net effect on overall employment, according to a recent report by the Urban Institute. The report contradicts assertions that the new law would place an undue burden on individual business owners, inducing

FUJIFILM, Nuance To Deliver Integrated Reporting Solution

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A. and Nuance Communications yesterday announced the formation of a partnership to sell Nuance’s dictation systems to FUJIFIM’s established radiology customer base. The two companies have also agreed to collaborate on product development, a move they claim will result in the creation of higher-caliber,more consistent

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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.