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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RSNA Trendwatch: Consumer Technology Moving to Health Care

Gaming technologies applied to high speed graphics processing is just one example of how consumer technologies are now used to improve the look and function of advanced imaging systems

RSNA Trendwatch: Multi-Enterprise Imaging

This year's RSNA left no room for doubt: If you're just talking about image management within the radiology department, you might as well not be talking at all

RSNA Trendwatch: Social Media Gaining Ground

Elliot Fishman, MD, of Johns Hopkins, was just one of many at RSNA 2013 urging radiology as a profession to start acknowledging the power of social media — as well as the risks of abstaining from it

RANT Named Biggest Practice by FTE Radiologists

Radiology Associates of North Texas, based in Forth Worth, Tex, held onto the top spot in the annual Radiology Business Journal ranking of largest radiology practices by full-time equivalent (FTE) radiologists

Former Exeter Hospital Radiologic Tech Sentenced to 39 Years

David Kwiatkowski, a fentanyl-addicted radiology technician who had worked at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, had already pleaded guilty to infecting at least 46 patients with hepatitis C in exchange for limiting his sentence to no more than 40 years

RSNA Session: Romneycare Holds Lessons for Radiology

The experience of health care providers in Massachusetts is valuable to consider when examining how health care reform might impact the role of radiologists in the future, noted speakers at a Monday morning RSNA session

Radiology’s Value Proposition: The Massachusetts Experience

On September 9, 2013, Cheryl Proval, editor, Radiology Business Journal, moderated “The Boston Experience: Radiology’s Value Proposition in the New Health-care Paradigm,” a panel discussion held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the RBMA Fall Educational Conference.  The meeting location offered a unique opportunity to explore radiology’s changing value proposition under health-care reform with a panel that represents hospital-based radiology, outpatient radiology, and the payor community.

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The New Quality Mandate: Demonstrating Radiology’s Value

If someone asked you to define quality in radiology, what would you say? The precise definition of quality is certainly nebulous, but it has never mattered too much—until now.

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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.