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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St. Thomas Health Launches Imaging Partnership

Saint Thomas Health yesterday announced the formation of Saint Thomas Outpatient Imaging, a new joint venture between the five-hospital system and two of the area’s leading radiology groups, Premier Radiology and MidState Radiology. Once the transaction of $100 million is complete, Saint Thomas Outpatient Imaging will be the largest network of

Collaborative Creates New Center For Accountable Care

The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) has launched the Center for Accountable Care, an entity designed to ensure that a strong, robust, patient-centered primary care model is at the foundation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) nationwide, and that programs and policies related to ACOs help to maintain this focus.  

Societies To Sponsor Radiation Oncology Briefing

The role of radiation oncology in the fight against cancer will be the topic of an upcoming briefing for members of Congress and their staffs by three professional societies that represent radiation oncology service providers. Slated for March 31, the briefing will include participants from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM),

Health-care Reform and Radiology: Introduction

MMP

This article is the first in a four-part series on health-care reform’s impact on radiology.

Imaging Technology Assessment: Business and Clinical Perspectives

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Investing in a new piece of imaging equipment can be a daunting proposition, particularly when the equipment is in the high-tech—and high-expense—category. For imaging centers, which are facing increasing pressure to make the most of every capital investment, the challenges multiply. What are the clinical and business considerations of most

Hospital–Imaging-center Integration: Complexities in Search of Solutions

VMG

This article is the first in a four-part series on options for integrating imaging centers and hospitals.

What Community Hospitals Want: A Conversation With David Harrison, RT, MBA

Radisphere

Community hospitals have a unique set of needs when it comes to imaging. Though they also once faced a corresponding set of challenges, advances in telecommunications have, to some degree, leveled the playing field, enabling them to provide radiology services on par with those of their larger peers. ImagingBiz.com spoke with David Harrison, RT, MBA

Preparing Used Equipment to Sell: Best Practices

Imaging Acquisitions

The sale or trading in of legacy equipment is a critical aspect of the acquisition of new imaging technology, providing facilities with capital and/or leverage to help offset the cost of the new device. Properly readying used equipment for sale, however, is an often-overlooked component of the process, according to Doug Fischer, CEO of Imaging

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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.