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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New UnitedHealthcare policy brings reviews of certain outpatient imaging procedures

Beginning with services performed on Jan. 1, 2019, UnitedHealthcare will be reviewing the site of care for certain CT and MR imaging procedures to be performed in an outpatient hospital setting. Anthem implemented a similar policy in 2017.

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Task force working to improve breast cancer care for black women in Chicago

The mortality rate from breast cancer is down significantly among black women in Chicago, and area experts are attributing a lot of that success to the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force.

iCAD Announces Exceptional Study Results Demonstrating Significant Advantages of Revolutionary Artificial Intelligence Technology for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

NASHUA, N.H.and ATHENS, Greece,—iCAD, Inc.(NASDAQ: ICAD),a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions,today announced outstanding clinical results of its new, leading-edge digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) cancer detection software. The study demonstrated significant positive results for clinical performance and workflow efficiency.

Connecticut radiologist writes novel about breast cancer diagnosis

Heather Frimmer, MD, a Connecticut-based breast and emergency room radiologist sought to “do something a little more creative” and forayed into writing a novel that highlights an important topic she manages at her day job—cancer diagnosis.

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GE Healthcare launches Invenia ABUS 2.0 in US

GE Healthcare has officially launched the Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) 2.0 in the United States after installing the equipment in other parts of the world since 2014.

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Beverly G. Coleman receives SRU Distinguished Service Award

Beverly G. Coleman, MD, a radiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), is the 2018 recipient of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) Distinguished Service Award.

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Unenhanced CT a wise first choice when treating adult patients with new-onset seizure

Unenhanced CT should be the first imaging examination performed when patients present with new-onset seizure, according to a new analysis published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. It can help specialists exclude conditions that would require urgent or emergent intervention.

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GE Healthcare, SORK pledge to help train technologists in Africa

GE Healthcare and the Society of Radiography in Kenya (SORK) pledged to train a minimum of 140 technologists as part of a partnership focused on improving overall efficiency. The partnership will “build on efforts to achieve universal healthcare through capacity building.”

Around the web

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.