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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Washington State Radiology Group Renews RCM Services Agreement with Zotec Partners

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zotec Partners (Zotec), the industry-leading provider of radiology revenue cycle and practice management services, announces a revenue cycle management (RCM) services renewal with Radia Inc., PS, the largest and most progressive radiology group in the Pacific Northwest. In the extended agreement, Zotec will continue to manage the practice’s revenue cycle and offer RCM technologies and data access that contribute to the practice’s continued growth and sustainability.

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GW Health Workforce Institute: Nonlicensed and tele-health savvy health workers to shape future healthcare staffing needs

Sponsored by vRad

Health-policy educator and researcher Patricia (“Polly”) Pittman, PhD, co-founded the GW Health Workforce Institute at George Washington University (GWHWI) in April 2015.

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Time to take a hard swing at the ‘wall of silence’ surrounding medical error

In early May, a Johns Hopkins study showed medical error to be the third leading cause of death in the country. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's response was not just candid but courageous.

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4 recommendations for improving the use of QI methodologies in radiology

The Lean and Six Sigma quality improvement (QI) methodologies are useful, but according to the Journal of the American College of Radiology, more high-quality studies are needed for radiology departments to get the most benefit out of using them. 

SIR backs new bill to reallocate GME opportunities

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) announced earlier this week that it supports a new bill it says would increase access to government-funded graduate medical education (GME) to newly recognized primary medical specialties such as interventional radiology. 

Report: Onex considering sale of Carestream Health

Onex is once again considering selling Carestream Health, according to a new report from Reuters. 

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Legislation would require rad assistants to be viewed as non-physician practitioners

If passed, new bipartisan legislation would require Medicare to recognize qualified radiology assistants as non-physician practitioners. Professionals with non-physician practitioner status can perform certain key tasks, helping doctors manage their workloads.  

Researchers use custom call dashboard to track caseloads of first-year rad residents

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) guidelines state that first-year radiology residents (R1s) are unable to take independent call. But if they only work traditional business hours in that first year, how are we sure R1s are getting enough exposure to high-acuity cases? 

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‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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