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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Practice Prophets: Auguring the Future of Radiology Practice

Representatives of five practice models—academic, private practice, multispecialty, employed and teleradiology—share thoughts on their relative strengths and weaknesses

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Fast Forward: Reimagining the Radiology Department

The radiology department of the future already is under construction in departments throughout the country

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Radiology 100: Big Is Beautiful

The Seventh Annual Ranking of the 100 Largest Radiology Practices by FTE Radiologists.

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Achieving 24/7 Excellence—as Measured by HCAHPS

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 mandates that CMS implement the Hospital Value–Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, which incorporates several quality domains.

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Dangers of Knee-jerk Cost Cutting

To meet demands to cut costs in healthcare, administrators are reaching for the obvious—line item expenses on the profit-and-loss statement—with counterproductive results. 

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CDS in the hot seat

After a four-year wait, the results of the Medicare Imaging Demonstration project have arrived. You will understand why they are underwhelming if you have ever gone swimming in a pond full of algae: Murky.

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A Mighty Challenge Ahead

Get ready to rollout LDCT lung cancer screening

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Ready for RSNA?

Whether you’re using a pocket-guide to keep track of activities, or keeping your RSNA schedule online, the 100th Annual Meeting of the RSNA is just a turkey away, so it’s time to dig in and finalize your plans. As far as what you might expect to see and hear at RSNA this year, ImagingBiz and radiologybusiness.com will keep you up to date with the latest news and information online. So whether you’ll be in Chicago or monitoring the meeting from home, you can get everything right here. This issue of ImagingBiz brings you information on what will surely be some of the hot topics of this year’s meeting.

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.