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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Seizing the moment: How to set the stage for imaging practice growth

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

As reimbursement challenges grow for outpatient imaging, many practices are struggling to remain afloat. However, with the right technology, it’s very possible to stay ahead of the curve.

ACR's AUC now acceptable for physicians treating Medicare patients

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is now a qualified Provider-Led Entity, according to rules set out by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The ACR will now be able to provide appropriate use criteria for radiologists who are ordering tests or managing treatment for Medicare patients. 

American and European firms team up to improve breast cancer imaging

Two healthcare technology companies have struck up a transatlantic partnership in an effort to improve breast cancer diagnostic imaging in Europe. U.S.-based Visiopharm said in a statement it will combine its analysis software with Netherlands-based Royal Philips’ imaging programs with the aim to “boost breast cancer diagnosis objectivity.” 

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Q&A with David S. Channin MD: How to Make PACS Patient Centered

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

As healthcare takes steps toward the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for patient centricity, information technology also has some ground to traverse.

Bayer considering sale of radiology supplies unit

Bayer AG, the German chemicals and healthcare company, is considering selling its radiology supplies unit, worth $3 billion, while the company is in talks to acquire Monsanto Co, reports Yahoo Finance. 

Internal Association of HealthCare Professionals adds two radiologists

The Internal Association of HealthCare Professionals added two radiologists to its organization last week.

RedRick Technologies to Continue the Ergonomic Reading Room Discussion at Upcoming SIIM 2016 Annual Meeting

Mount Brydges, ON Canada, June 15, 2016 - RedRick Technologies, a provider of ergonomic radiology furniture, monitor mounting solutions and reading room design guidance, is looking forward to continuing the conversation about the importance of good ergonomics in the radiology reading room at the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting in Portland, OR, June 29 - July 1. RedRick Technologies will be in booth #216-218.

Hologic tops rankings of U.S. mammography providers

According to recent market research, Hologic ranked as the top mammography provider in the U.S. with 96 percent of customers reporting the imaging systems are worth the investment.

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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.