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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Study Reveals Need For New Quality-of-Care Performance Measures

New efforts are warranted to develop and refine quality-of-care and other performance measures that can assure new payment models will improve medical care without harming patients, according to a study recently released by RAND Corporation.
 
The study reveals that although certain currently employed quality measurement tools may be useful to new

Higher Volume Reduces False Positives In Screening Mammography

Radiologists who interpret a high volume of mammograms may not detect more cancers, but are better at determining which suspicious lesions are not malignant, according to a new study published online and in the April print edition of Radiology.

Healthcare Reform A Top Priority For IT Professionals

Implementing healthcare reform and meeting stage 1 "meaningful use" requirements comprise the top two priorities of healthcare IT professionals, reveals a survey released earlier this week by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) at its annual meeting.

Philips, Microsoft Collaborate To Streamline Radiologist Workflows

Royal Philips Electronics and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a collaborative endeavor wherein the latter’s iSite PACS will be integrated with the Microsoft Amalga data aggregation platform.

ASTRO Releases Palliative Radiotherapy Treatment Guidelines

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued evidence-based guidelines for the use of palliative radiotherapy to treat bone metastases.

Radiologist Assistant Licensure Bill Passes Muster With Utah House of Representatives

Utah’s House of Representatives late last week passed a bill that would allow a radiologist assistant to perform radiological procedures under the supervision of a radiologist.

More Hospital Mergers On Horizon For 2011

The single stand-alone hospital may be a “concept of the past”, John Reiboldt, managing director of Coker Capital Advisors, told an audience at the HIMSS11 conference in Orlando, Fla., yesterday.

House Puts Malpractice Reform on Table

The House Judiciary Committee earlier this week approved a bill to limit malpractice damages, HR 5, the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act, by a vote of 18 to 15 and has submitted it to the full House of Representatives for consideration. Introduced by Representatives Phil Gingrey, MD (R-GA), David Scott (D-GA),

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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.