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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Professional Productivity Strategies: Beyond the RVU

As healthcare heads toward value-based payment, radiology is challenged to move beyond the relative value unit to measure physician performance

Radiology professor awarded $450,000 grant for prostate cancer research

A researcher from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded funding to further his research into the detection of prostate cancer, the school announced Monday.

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Do radiology residency spots need to be reduced?

The Journal of the American College of Radiology recently presented readers with opinions from both sides of the debate over whether radiology residency spots need to be reduced. 

Ala. radiology tech charged with sexual abuse of patients

A radiology technologist at Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital in Demopolis, Ala., was arrested last week for allegedly committing sexual acts on at least two patients.

Study tracking Choosing Wisely impact finds mixed results for low-value imaging

A study evaluating Choosing Wisely’s impact on use of four different low-value imaging services noted a significant decrease in two of them, with little to no impact in the other two, according to findings published by JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Eli Lilly and Company announces support of IDEAS study

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company has announced its continued support—including a financial commitment—of the Imaging Dementia - Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) study.

Study shows U.S. mammogram prices range from $43 to $1,898

Castlight Health issued its second annual U.S. Costliest Cities Analysis this week, using medical claims data to show the variety of prices patients are asked to pay for different medical procedures across the country.

EXPLORER project awarded $15.5 million to build total-body PET scanner

A research team at the University of California, Davis has been awarded a $15.5 million, five-year grant to build a total-body PET scanner. 

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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.