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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While peer-review systems lack efficiency, QA databases can have big impact

The peer-review systems radiologists use today take up too way too much time, according to a recent editorial published in Academic Radiology. Implementing an active quality assurance (QA) database, on the other hand, can be significantly beneficial for any radiology department. 

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Conserus Workflow Intelligence: providing continuous improvement in a variety of ways

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For the team at the Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin (FH and MCW) in Milwaukee, Conserus Workflow Intelligence is the solution that keeps on giving.

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How can Imaging departments stay relevant and align themselves with hospital goals? And how can workflow optimization help?

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If radiology departments want to stay relevant and thrive in the U.S. healthcare industry’s shift from volume-to-value, they need to clearly demonstrate their contribution to the organization’s overall success.

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Alberta Health Services uses blind peer review to drive improved patient outcomes

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In 2011, officials at Alberta Health Services made a startling discovery. A number of CT studies in a rural community had been misinterpreted, raising questions about patient care.

AHRA wants CMS to clarify, change some modifier codes, appropriate use regulations in proposed 2017 rules

Members of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA), one of the biggest radiology management organizations in the U.S., said it hopes CMS can clarify and possibly change certain x-ray claim modifier, payment classification and appropriate use policies in its 2017 rules. According to the AHRA comments, deadlines certain Appropriate Use Criteria rules might be unrealistic and some claims modifier rules are confusing. 

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes Adds Regulatory Affairs and Engineering Leaders to its Management Team

BELOIT, Wis. – NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC has hired James Brodack, Ph.D. as vice president of regulatory affairs/quality assurance and Rim Milunas as vice president of engineering. 

Radiology call center reduces ED visits, makes primary care physicians happy

1-800 Imaging is a pilot program developed in Canada to help connect primary care physicians (PCPs) with radiologists and help decrease the use emergency departments (EDs). Heidi Schmidt, MD, department of medical imaging at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues wrote about the program’s success for the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Q&A: Laurie Fenton Ambrose on fighting CMS reimbursement cuts through ‘power in numbers’

On Sept. 6, more than 80 patient advocacy groups, health providers and medical associations published a letter that urged CMS not to follow through with the LDCT lung cancer screening reimbursement cuts. Laurie Fenton Ambrose, president and CEO of Lung Cancer Alliance, spoke with Radiology Business about the importance of LDCT screening, the work Lung Cancer Alliance has done to increase screening access and more. 

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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.