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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Illinois breast tomosynthesis bill signed into law

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill into law last month adding breast tomosynthesis to the list of procedures that must be covered by health insurance plans.

Columbus Radiology partners with Mercy Health - Cincinnati

Columbus Radiology announced this week that it has been awarded a new contract to provide radiology services to Mercy Health - Cincinnati. The contract goes into effect on Sept. 29. 

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes ready to begin Mo-99 production

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, a nuclear medicine company based out of Madison, Wis., announced that it has received approval to begin producing the radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) at the University of Missouri Research Reactor facility in Columbia, Mo.

Radiology information systems market to be worth over $720 million by 2019

The radiology information systems (RIS) market is projected to be worth $722.7 million by 2019, according to a new report from the market research firm MarketsandMarkets. 

The legal risks for radiologists who don't pay attention to CT scout images

Radiologists should always review CT scout images, and not doing so could have legal ramifications down the line, according to a recent commentary published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Altes named MU radiology chair

Patrice “Patrick” Delafontaine, M.D., dean of the University of Missouri School of Medicine, announced that Talissa Ann Altes, M.D., vice chair of clinical research and associate professor of radiology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, has been named chair of the Department of Radiology in the University of Missouri School of Medicine. 

Initial CT findings can be bellwether of eventual costs in acute appendicitis cases

Baseline CT findings can serve as independent predictors of clinical outcomes, hospital resource utilization, and inpatient costs in cases related to acute appendicitis, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

GE Healthcare teams up with Temple University Health System

GE Healthcare and Temple University Health System have announced a seven-year collaboration that will focus on promoting high-quality, efficient imaging services at a lower cost.

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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.