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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Physician Productivity Tracking Takes Hold

With reimbursement declining, more practices are wading into the dangerous waters of tracking radiologists’ productivity

Detangling Teleradiology in Private Practice

Only a Web-based, thin-client system should be considered by teleradiology providers, according to J. Raymond Geis, MD. It is also vital, Geis says, to make all information available on the Web and to save all data in a searchable form. These requirements apply to more than images and reports; they should cover detailed clinical data and

Economic Summit 2008: Audience Response

A survey of attendees at a May 2008 meeting has yielded a snapshot of today’s primary concerns for radiology practices. Educational Symposia, Tampa, Fla, sponsored the Third Annual Economics Summit 2008: Solving Practice Issues, which was held in Las Vegas on May 1–3. Lawrence R. Muroff, MD, program director, asked the summit’s 106 attendees to

The Leadership Balance: People and Performance

Every company is, at once, two things: an economic organization whose survival depends on delivering value in an unforgiving market and a social institution with deep impact on the lives of its employees. The successful CEO must achieve a critical balance between the needs of shareholders and those of employees.

Outpatient IR Centers of Excellence: Trends in Practice Expansion

As radiology practices react to the impact of the DRA, some are tapping into the potential of interventional radiology to expand their outpatient services

Minnesota’s Bold Experiment: Radiologist as RBM

In June 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a long-awaited study on imaging utilization. If CMS follows GAO’s recommendations on effective methods for curbing overutilization, private payors are likely to follow. That’s why the radiology community was disturbed to hear GAO’s statement that overutilization is a far-reaching

The New Economics of Contrast

Contrast is the number-one consumable in the radiology department, and its use is being driven by efficiency, safety, and reimbursement concerns

Contest of the Implausibles

In an often-hilarious talk at the Beyond Conference in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2008, political observer and noted handicapper Charlie Cook gave the audience an insider’s view of the 2008 campaign for the presidency, complete with personal anecdotes, acerbic observations, and his own picks for vice-presidential candidates. “If the last year were

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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.