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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Accepting that credit card could cost you, rad practice

The American Medical Association is warning medical practices to beware private payors bearing virtual credit cards. The “convenient” payment method is increasingly being used to conceal hefty—and avoidable—fees.

JAMA: Trend in rising health data breaches will be hard to reverse

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association verified that data breaches of protected health information are on the rise, a trend that will be difficult to reverse in the near future. 

Intrinsic Imaging awarded Phase II clinical trial for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme

Intrinsic Imaging, an FDA audited, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 certified, GAMP® 5 compliant, imaging core lab, announced today that it has been awarded an international Phase II clinical trial to assess a new treatment for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

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CEO Survey: Leaders confident in growth, focused on technology

Results are in from the 2015 Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) CEO Survey: Business leaders are regaining confidence in U.S. business growth, putting a huge emphasis on emerging technologies.

National Decision Support Company experiences 50% increase in monthly decision support transactions

ANDOVER, Mass., April 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- National Decision Support Company (NDSC) today announced that its registries now process and record more than 300,000 decision support sessions per month—an increase of over 100,000 monthly transactions in just the past six months.

AHRQ looks at effectiveness of injection treatments for low back pain—and comes up short

A new report on spinal injections prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) underscores the challenges facing the Department of Health and Human Services as it seeks to rationalize the nation's health care investment.

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WEDI survey: Providers, vendors, payors struggle with ICD-10 prep

The Oct. 1 ICD-10 deadline is getting closer, and according to a recent WEDI survey of providers, health plans and vendors, healthcare organizations are struggling to comply in time.

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Chesapeake Bay imaging network chooses Viztek for PACS

Mid-Atlantic Imaging Centers, which serves as the imaging provider for more than 70 physicians within Norfolk, Va.-based Mid-Atlantic Women’s Care, is going with Viztek for PACS.

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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.