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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Dangers of medical imaging are exaggerated, according to nuclear scientists

A group of nuclear energy executives and consultants refuted the nearly 80-year-old belief that low doses of radiation can eventually cause cancer, instead positing that it produces a beneficial biological response, in an article published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Radiology center funded via $3.2 million gift opens its doors

St. Joseph Healthcare recently opened the Boris Family Center for Interventional Radiology and Oncology at St. Joseph’s Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, funded through a $3.2 million gift from the Boris Family.

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Out with Obamacare, in with Trumpcare? Radiology thought leaders mull possibilities

As the GOP prepares to take charge of the executive branch of the federal government while maintaining its majority in both legislative chambers, it’s not just healthcare watchers who are wondering if Obamacare may soon be history and nothing but. Much of the country if not the world is watching to find out. And many are wondering: What will Trumpcare really look like?

ACR provides MIPS reporting guidelines

The MACRA "season opener" has come and gone, and imaging practices can now begin reporting quality metrics in the hopes of receiving a positively adjusted reimbursement. Chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR)'s Commission on Economics, Zeke Silva III, MD, outlines the four reporting options for the first year of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), in a post for ACR Bulletin.  

Health experts form 'Think A-Head' campaign to educate on CT scans

As the most common CT examination performed in children, Head CT has garnered the attention of health care experts including pediatric trauma surgeons, pediatric neurosurgeons, emergency medicine physicians, nurses and members of the imaging team across the nation who have teamed together and through an organization called Image Gently, formed the "Think A-Head" campaign.

TRA Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging Northwest join forces

TRA Medical Imaging and Medical Imaging Northwest have announced a merger in an effort to provide better service to the residents of King, Pierce and Thurston county.

Significant growth projected for global medical image analysis software by 2021

The medical image analysis software market is expected to see significant growth over the next four years, spurred by changes in demographics and growing economies in developing countries, according to a new report from New York-based Persistence Market Research.

Is cost most important part in value equation?

The most important arm of the value equation may have shifted from quality to cost, according to C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine. 

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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.