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.

View From the Podium: Stanford MDCT Face-Off

By stipulation, there were to be no winners when eight vendors of advanced imaging workstations and their physician teams competed in the Seventh Annual Original Workstation Face-off, held May 20 in San Francisco, California, at Stanford Radiology’s 11th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-row CT. Even so, according to two radiologists

PACS Nirvana: University Radiology's Reporting-driven Workflow

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Ever since digital imaging liberated radiologists from the site of image acquisition, radiology practices have labored to patch together distributed reading solutions that would efficiently meet the needs of multiple clients, balance workflow, and enable subspecialization.

Trademarking and Copyrighting: The Beginner's Guide

An established health care consulting practice had been in business for several years. As part of its growth and development, it had a logo designed by a veteran graphic artist and developed a tagline (a slogan that appeared below its logo). Earlier this year, as part of its routine due diligence, the company’s staff visited the Web sites of its

Heroes in Proving the Value of Imaging: Part 3

Gretchen Birbeck, MD

Protecting Radiology Through Credentialing

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

According to David M. Yousem, MD, MBA, serving on your hospital’s credentialing committee is far more important than you might think. While it’s not typically a highly prized experience, deciding on physicians’ privileges has direct and lasting impacts on patient care, on the hospital’s reputation, on liability exposure, and on the procedural turf

The Hard Copier’s Dilemma

Along London’s celebrated avenue of high-end medical care, Harley Street, it’s not uncommon to see sights that would make any hardened veteran of the US health care system green with envy. Though coverage through the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is provided free to all comers—and is the only option available for emergency care—NHS exists

RBMA Attendees Debate Outsourced Billing

It is a question often pondered by practice managers and others overseeing the financial aspects of an imaging enterprise: What guidelines or benchmarks do I use to determine whether to retain my in-house billing department or outsource billing? At a June 9 session at the RBMA conference in Orlando, Florida, Randal Roat, vice president of radiology

Coalition Forms to Promote Clinical Decision-support Tools

Radisphere

In June, an alliance of health care providers, technology vendors, and imaging organizations announced the formation of the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition, an initiative aimed at promoting health-IT–enabled clinical decision support as a means of determining the appropriateness of diagnostic imaging services. Members of the coalition include the ACR;

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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.