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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RSNA 2008: Mining the Landscape, Assessing the Exhibits

In assessing the imaging technologies on display at RSNA, an observer provides tools for making critical decisions regarding your capital budget for 2009

Highly Functional Imaging

Great leadership will distinguish winning imaging organizations from those that struggle

Is Custom Reporting Difficult?

Completing a customized report using RIS data-mining software (or some other system) is simply a matter of learning a little technology. For Stefanie Dendy, director of radiology at King’s Daughters Hospital in Yazoo City, Miss, it can be as easy as changing the start-date and end-date fields for the information that you want to correlate.

Day for Night, East for West

Teleradiology permeates the specialty as practices cross state, regional, and global boundaries to purchase and practice radiology

Data Mining: Imaging Executives Crunch the Numbers

RIS data, keyed to billing, can be analyzed to improve competitive capability and pare inefficiency to the nub

Further TC Cuts Ahead?

Due to inequities in payment methodology, are providers of imaging services overpaid?

CCTA Standards and Turf

Turf questions have always surrounded the provision and interpretation of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies. Who should read these studies? Cardiologists and radiologists are unlikely to exclude each other from interpreting these studies, but the application of standards may help both specialties ensure an emphasis on appropriate training and

CCTA Staffing and Coverage

Radiology practices and departments that intend to offer coronary CT angiography (CCTA) need to consider how the additional exam volume and time commitments created by CCTA studies will affect their operations and their staffing models. Will they need to hire additional radiologists, nurses, and/or technologists to manage the extra workload? Who

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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.