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.

Consumer-driven Health Care: Dealing With the Impact on the Physician Revenue Cycle

The health care industry will be facing significant changes in the future, and a medical practice’s success is becoming increasingly linked to its revenue cycle. Reduced reimbursement from payors, along with changes in third-party reimbursement, has significantly affected how medical practices need to deal with the revenue cycle for their practices

Role of the Center Manager: Driving Productivity by Nurturing Cooperation

The team at OGH Imaging LLC, Grand Coteau, La, faces a daunting task every day: living up to the expectations of both OGH’s hospital and physician investors while managing approximately 70 patient studies a day across eight modalities (MRI, 16-slice CT, ultrasound, DR, digital mammography, fluoroscopy, bone densitometry, and calcium scoring).

Avoiding Nightmare PACS Outages

Preparation is the difference between unexpected PACS downtime and a nightmare, Michael D. Toland told his audience in Seattle on May 17 at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. Toland, who is PACS administrative team manager for the University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, presented PACS Worst Case

Long-term Data Management and Migration for PACS

PACS data migration is so important that every PACS acquisition should include a plan for outbound migration at the end of that system’s life, according to Frederick M. Behlen, PhD. Behlen is an officer, director, and shareholder of LAITEK Inc, also known as Migratek™ Data Migration Services, Homewood, Ill. He serves as cochair of the DICOM–HL7

Here Come the RFIDs

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices are small transponders that allow tracking and data transmission using radio waves. Typically, they are used to track shipments for inventory control, but they also guard library books and have thousands of other uses. They can even be inserted subcutaneously in humans.

Enhancing the Practice's Lifeblood: Turnaround Time

Voice recognition as a productivity- enhancing technology was a topic of discussion more than a year ago at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. One speaker, a radiology administrator, described his hospital’s adoption of voice recognition as a boon to getting work done more rapidly. He told those in attendance at

Speed and Efficiency Drive CCTA Technique

When it comes to the interpretation of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies, the bywords are speed and efficiency. There are, however, multiple routes to those ends, as witnessed by the different approaches of three veteran CCTA practitioners. All three radiologists interviewed by Radiology Business Journal use, to a greater or lesser extent,

Palm Beach Radiology Institute: Digital Out of the Box

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

At Palm Beach Radiology Institute, operated by Palm Beach Radiology and Imaging Associates (PBRIA), there is no film, there never has been film, and no one expects ever to see film. When the outpatient imaging center opened a year ago, it was already an all-digital environment, built from the ground up to accommodate a digital infrastructure and a

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