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.

Visage Imaging CEO David Chambers: On the Future of Health Care IT

Earlier this year, Pro Medicus Ltd., the Australia-based RIS provider, acquired Visage Imaging. ImagingBiz.com spoke with David Chambers, CEO of Pro Medicus Ltd. and Visage Imaging on the history of the company, details of the acquisition, and the health care IT landscape in the land down under.

2009 MedPAC Report: A New Threat to High-quality Care

In 1997, Congress created the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to provide recommendations regarding health care policy and reimbursement with respect to the Medicare program. Since then, MedPAC has performed an important and useful role, collecting and analyzing data and trends affecting the means and methods by which the US government

Accreditation and Radiology

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Accreditation is important to radiology providers not only in ensuring reimbursement eligibility and protecting turf, but in creating the opportunity to make needed operational changes, according to David M. Yousem, MD, MBA. Yousem, who is professor of radiology and director of neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore,

Managing Errors in Demographic/Clinical Information: Using Tracking Mechanisms

All insurance accounts fall into one of two groups: full resolution (at negotiated fees, where the credits only consist of cash, contract adjustment, and probable bad debt, if any patient balance cannot be collected) or full write-off (where the practice did not comply with a payor-based rule).

Grassroots Activism 101

No one is quite sure when the word draconian came to be the semiofficial modifier of the word cuts, when used in conjunction with the noun DRA. Mark Newton recalls hearing it often during the campaign to convince federal lawmakers that their Medicare cost-saving bill was a disaster in the making for radiology.

Keeping Country Radiology Cool

Radisphere

A rising tide lifts all boats, as the saying goes, and thanks to the hastening deployment of subspecialty teleradiology, some of the smallest imaging-department boats are riding high. This is good news for patients in rural areas, who can now stick with their local hospitals for their imaging needs. It’s good news for those hospitals, too, because

Radiology's Tough Love

Last month, I discussed the need (and demand) for a culture and ethos of customer service within medical imaging practices, departments, and centers. Apparently hitting a bit of a nerve, I received some rather interesting responses that point out a significant disconnect between this ideal and the current reality, based on a certain anthropology

In the Navy: The DoD and the Future of PACS

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

The US Navy deployed its first PACS—a military-specified system with limited functionality—in 1996. Since then, the Navy has operated multiple PACS from a variety of vendors, all selected through a contracting process monitored by the US Department of Defense (DoD). “Our purchasing process enables us always to select the best of breed,” Edwin Doorn

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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.