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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Palmetto Health Tuomey Purchases Carestream DR Rooms, Upgrades for Mobile Imaging Systems

Newest Systems Will Equip Hospital to Complete Conversion to DR 

iCAD Announces Study Demonstrating Economic and Health Benefits of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treatment

Lifetime cost-effectiveness analysis reveals $630 million annual cost savings, less radiation exposure and better quality of life for patients compared to external beam radiation therapy

Meeting their radiologist has a significant impact on patients

Radiologists have minimal direct contact with patients, but steps within the industry are being taken to change that.

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Are we losing touch with the 'human side’ of radiology?

It’s the hottest topic in radiology right now: What kind of impact will artificial intelligence and machine learning have on the specialty’s future? According to a recent opinion piece published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, imaging leaders should start worrying less about robots replacing radiologists and more about why radiologists are being treated as if they are already robots.

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Patients go online to research mammographic efficacy, screening guidelines

When patients go online for information on breast cancer and mammography, what do they want to know? A team of researchers from New York University Langone Hospital in Brooklyn and the department of radiology at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City examined this very question, publishing findings in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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3 takeaways from exploring 20 years of Medicare Part B medical imaging data

Hoping to gain fresh insight into imaging utilization trends, researchers used the Neiman Imaging Types of Service (NITOS) coding system to study Medicare B Physician Fee Schedule billing data from 1994 to 2013, publishing their results in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

New Customizable ACR Website Offers More Interactive, Mobile-Friendly Experience

Reston, VA – Designed by members, for members, the new American College of Radiology website (ACR.org) is more interactive, mobile friendly and customizable to meet individual member needs.

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Female college athletes experience higher rate of concussion over 15-year period

The discussion about head injuries and their lasting effects has mainly involved contact sports, with many cases involving retired professional football players. But in addition to these older men, college-aged women are experiencing concussions at a higher rate than their male counterparts.

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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.