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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 2018: 3 things attendees are looking forward to at the big show

In late November, some 50,000 representatives from the medical imaging industry will once again gather at McCormick Place in Chicago for RSNA 2018. Vendors will share their latest and greatest solutions, attendees will take part in fascinating sessions and the convention center will burst with enthusiasm, energy and excitement.

Integrated interventional radiology among the year's most competitive medical specialties

The American Medical Association (AMA) shared its seven most competitive medical specialties of 2018, and the list included integrated interventional radiology.

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Kentucky lawmakers announce bipartisan bill to let radiologists diagnose black lung cases again

State Reps. Angie Hatton and Robert Goforth have pre-filed legislation to roll back portions of Kentucky’s House Bill 2, which barred federally certified radiologists from reading x-rays in black lung compensation cases.

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Images from world’s first total-body medical scanner headed to RSNA 2018

EXPLORER, a new total-body PET/CT scanner, is the world’s first medical imaging equipment to produce 3D pictures of the entire human body—and its initial images are headed to RSNA 2018 in Chicago.

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ACR unveils new QC manual focused on digital mammography, DBT

The 2018 American College of Radiology (ACR) Digital Mammography Quality Control Manual with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is now available online, the ACR announced this week.

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Older women see benefits from undergoing annual mammograms

Women 75 years and older should still continue to undergo annual screening mammograms, according to a new study to be presented at RSNA 2018 in Chicago.

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5 tips for radiologists who want to get more out of social media

As the impact and influence of social media continues to grow, how can radiologists and other imaging professionals use it to their advantage?

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Imaging reveals how playing high school football changes an athlete’s brain

Playing a single season of high school football can cause changes in the structure of an athlete’s brain, according to new research published in Neurobiology of Disease.

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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.