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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Top Legal Issues for 2016—and Beyond

Three of radiology's best-known legal minds share their thoughts on the most pressing legal concerns in 2016.

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PACS Roundtable, Part 2: The Ideal PACS-EMR Relationship

An expert panel weighs in on what makes the PACS-EMR integration click.

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AI doesn’t stand for ‘annex imaging’—but could that day come?

Jason Kelly, MD, who practices in Denver, predicted the eventual demise of his profession at the hands of IBM’s Watson and its artificial-intelligence kin.

Resources to spare medical residents the potentially awful costs of work-life imbalance

Many medical schools are understandably concerned over anecdotal evidence linking doctors-in-training with elevated rates of depression and suicide. Stanford University is eschewing worry in favor of action. 

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The right partner, the right solution: A practice management success story

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

How one radiology practice increased volume by 25% without increasing billing staff costs

ACR calls for virtual colonoscopy coverage—again

While 22 states mandate insurers to cover virtual colonoscopy screening, it’s yet to be fully covered under Medicare, citing “insufficient evidence on test characteristics and performance” in a 2009 brief. Since then, imaging societies and patient advocacy groups representing millions of Americans have urged Medicare to reverse it’s decision.

McKesson to help Munster Radiology raise its profile, improve service to patients

Munster Radiology Group is seeking help to strengthen its customer and patients billing services as it improves its patient experience.

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Smile! Including patient photos with medical imaging may reduce doctor error

A study jointly conducted by Emory University and University of Arizona found that including patient photographs with medical imaging can reduce wrong-patient error while maintaining speed and accuracy.

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.