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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Anthem Blue Cross, 7 hospital systems form managed care plan in California

An historic alliance between Anthem Blue Cross and seven health systems has formed a new managed care plan aimed at employers in Southern California—and the nation’s second largest healthcare buyer has signed on as the first customer.

PenRad partners with Clinithink to optimize ICD-10 coding compliance at the point of dictation

ATLANTA--(BUSINESSWIRE)--PenRad Technologies, Inc, the market leader in Mammography Information Systems (MIS), today announced its partnership with Clinithink to refine the process of clinical documentation for radiologists in real-time. PenRad is embedding Clinithink's CNLP (Clinical Natural Language Processing) platform into its MIS solution to increase productivity, accuracy and efficiency of the mammography reporting workflow for its existing install base.

National Decision Support Company Announces Rapid Adoption of Imaging Decision Support

ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- National Decision Support Company (NDSC) continues to expand its customer base with more than 60 healthcare provider organizations adopting ACR Select for use within their electronic health record (EHR) order entry workflow.

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JACR: Write well or face the judgment of the patient portal

The rise of online patient portals is presenting radiologists with a golden opportunity and a formidable challenge. The opportunity: beat back market forces pushing the specialty toward commoditization. The challenge: master a new reporting language that remains sufficiently scientific for referring doctors yet becomes broadly accessible to medical laypersons—also known as “patients.” 

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Cancer overdiagnosis gets scrutiny as policymakers seek to tame healthcare costs

As the second annual Preventing Overdiagnosis conference gets underway at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, the Wall Street Journal suggests that it’s time to rethink early cancer detection.

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Lung cancer screening and the indication-creep blues

A new secondary analysis of the data collected for the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) was published this week, an apparent response to MEDCAC’s no-confidence vote in low-dose CT lung cancer screening.

Digital Edition of ACR BI-RADS® Atlas, Now Available

Reston, Va. (Sept. 10, 2014) — The fifth edition of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS®) Atlas is now available in a convenient electronic format. The digital (e-book) version can be downloaded to a tablet, laptop or desktop, and accessed on up to five devices.

Medicare patients twice as likely to benefit from LDCT lung screening

A secondary analysis of data from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) reveals an even greater potential benefit in the Medicare-aged population than in the broader, 55-to-74 age group, with screen-detected cancer rates in the 65+ age group more than twice that of the 55–64 age group.

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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.