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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Can mandatory peer review or new VR software improve the quality of radiology reports?

Radiologists rely heavily on voice recognition (VR) software when creating radiology reports, but VR use can lead to less accurate reports. According to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, implementing mandatory peer review is one way to reverse that trend and improve the quality of radiology reports.

Radiologist honored with Tulane lifetime achievement award

Joseph F. Sackett, MD, has been honored with the Tulane Medical Alumni Association’s Lifetime Achievement award. Sackett, who graduated from the university's School of Medicine in 1966, received the award during a May ceremony celebrating the 50-year reunion of his medical school class.

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Battling bacteria: Can simple interventions lead to cleaner radiology work spaces?

Providers are losing the war against hospital-acquired and healthcare-related infections, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. One of the primary culprits of this is the “bacterial burden of horizontal surfaces.” 

Updates announced for ACR Appropriateness Criteria

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week that it has released numerous updates to its ACR Appropriateness Criteria guidelines. 

Med students respond better to spaced out education strategy for image interpretation

Education can be accomplished in a number of ways. One popular method of teaching is through sheer repetition (the massed method), while others use a learning process spaced out over time (the interleaved method). But which is the most effective for radiologists?

FDA approves Axumin for PET imaging in certain men with suspected prostate cancer recurrence

The FDA announced its approval today of Axumin, a radioactive diagnostic agent indicated for PET imaging in men with “suspected prostate cancer recurrence based on elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels following prior treatment.”

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How well does Sectra PACS play with other vendors’ products? The imaging A-team in Albuquerque says quite well

Sponsored by Sectra

When X-Ray Associates of New Mexico went live with a new RIS in mid-April, Vice President and COO Sagit Frasier was anxious, but optimistic.

PCORI approves $7.5 million in funding for breast screening research study

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors has approved $7.5 million in funding for a clinical effectiveness research study led by Diana L. Miglioretti, PhD, dean’s professor in biostatistics at the University of California, Davis. The goal of the study is to research the effectiveness of digital breast tomosynthesis and MRI when used with mammography for cancer screening. 

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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.