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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Radiologists, meet your new best friends: Reading room coordinators

Implementing a reading room coordinator can improve radiologist satisfaction and help battle potential feelings of burnout, according to a recent case study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Are radiologists getting enough medical ethics training?

Radiologists spend a lot of years in medical school and in residency, but they still aren’t getting enough medical ethics training, according to a recent analysis published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Using limited-range CT for children with suspected appendicitis reduces dose while maintaining accuracy

Limited-range CT exams performed from the top of L2 to the top of the pubic symphysis are as accurate as full-range CT in children with suspected appendicitis and reduces the radiation dose by 46 percent, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Signed, sealed, delivered: Mailed outreach improves colorectal screening rates

Mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) outreach and colonoscopy outreach can improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates, according to new research published by JAMA.

For residents, by residents: Mentorship program focuses on radiation oncology

Mentorship is important for trainees in any healthcare specialty, but according to the authors of a new case study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, it is especially important in radiation oncology (RO). Mentors in RO are in short supply, however, so the study’s authors decided to do something about it.

4 patient categories all breast imaging providers should know

For a new study in the American Journal of Roentgenology, more than 1,600 patients completed a survey about their personal preferences when it comes to selecting a breast imaging center. The authors then used that data to separate patients into four distinct categories: convenience optimizers, ambivalent patients, medical center seekers and expertise seekers.

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Anthem policy pushes outpatient imaging out of hospitals

Anthem made headlines this summer by pulling back from several Obamacare exchange programs, but that’s not the insurance giant’s only big policy change of 2017. The Imaging Clinical Site of Care program, administered by Anthem subsidiary AIM Specialty Health, requires outpatient MR and CT scans not considered medically necessary to be completed at a freestanding imaging facility in order to be covered.

NFL to offer $40M to medical researchers

Medical researchers, particularly those in the neuroscience field, will soon have the chance to submit proposals for a piece of the $40 million the NFL is making available for grants.

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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.