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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Patients’ expectations outpacing hospital IT adoptions: survey

Hospital patients don’t merely dislike dealing with paperwork. When filling out forms seems to slow the delivery of their care, even when hospital staff or clinicians wield the pen and clipboard, patients react viscerally.

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Technologists step up for Nepal earthquake victims

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has donated $5,000 to the American Red Cross to help with relief efforts in Nepal following the devastating earthquake last month.

New ACR-AAPM radiation safety officer resources available

Reston, Va. (April 23, 2015) — The ACR-AAPM Radiation Safety Officer Resources is now available for physicians and medical physicists serving as radiation safety officers at medical facilities.

ACR supports bill to repeal controversial payment reduction

The ACR has come out in support of H.R. 2043, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, which aims to repeal imaging cuts the ACR feels are “unnecessary and may do more harm than good.”

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Publicly traded Aussie company acquires two radiology practices

Australian digital imaging company Capitol Health Limited announced the acquisitions of Eastern Radiology Services and Sydney Radiology this week.

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RAND: Provider M&A Fueled by Alternate Payment Models

Physician practices increasingly are affiliating or merging with other practices or aligning with or being acquired by hospitals in order to better support the investments needed to successfully implement alternative payment models, according to a new RAND report released in March.

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The Trouble with 360 (and Other Forms of Performance Review)

If you’ve ever wondered if your current methodology for managing performance review is effective, you are not alone.

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Two Decades of Radiology Benefits Management

Imagine (or recall) a time when CT technology was a nascent science, MR units were at best shared between hospitals and often when performed the images were physically shipped to national experts for overnight reading.

Around the web

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.

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.