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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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SIR rebrands to accent innovative patient care

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has launched a new brand for the society and its research organization—SIR Foundation—in an effort to demonstrate the its commitment to patient-driven care while highlighting the power and potential of interventional radiology

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The smartphone as disruptive medicine

Healthcare providers looking to engage patients will find a key enabling—and potentially disruptive—tool in their back pockets: the smartphone.  Writing in the Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal, cardiologist Eric Topol, MD, reviews a growing portfolio of powerful new applications and devices that can diagnose an ear infection, monitor mental health, track heart rhythms and even generate x-rays.

Health-policy docs issue call to action against physician self-referral

There are two schools of thought on physician self-referral. On one side are supporters who see the practice as a harmless means of streamlining care for patients. On the other are detractors who consider it a cynical form of capitalism run amok in healthcare.

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5 Minutes with N. Reed Dunnick, MD: Challenges facing radiology in 2015

RadiologyBusiness.com recently caught up with N. Reed Dunnick, MD, president of the Radiological Society of North America and the Fred Jenner Hodges Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan Health System for a short interview on some of the challenges facing radiology as we head into the new year. 

Prison term for ID theft

A breach at an Alabama hospital that resulted in a two-year jail term for a hospital employee suggests that insider threats to patient data security may be greater challenge than many providers understand.

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OIG's 2015 Work Plan takes triple aim at imaging services

Certain imaging services continue to be potential targets for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), according to the office’s recently published Fiscal Year 2015 Work Plan.

Legislation introduced to repeal medical device tax

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen (R.Minn.) has re-introduced legislation that would repeal the medical device tax. The 2.3 percent tax has been a prime target for repeal, particularly among Republicans, ever since it went into effect two years ago. 

Viztek announces FDA approval of Exa PACS

GARNER, NC- Viztek, a digital radiology and health IT innovator, today announced the FDA approval of its Exa PACS. Completely web-based and compatible with all devices and operating systems, the Exa PACS delivers significant efficiency and productivity benefits to hospitals, imaging centers and teleradiology groups via unprecedented PACS accessibility and utility for end users. 

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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.