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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Coordination of Care Through Integration and Standardization: UnityPoint Health

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UnityPoint Health, formerly Iowa Healthcare, a multi-city integrated delivery system based in Des Moines, recently underwent a transformation aimed at empowering primary care physicians to take the lead in care coordination for patients.

Interoperability and Population Health Management: Unlocking the Data

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As health care moves from fee-for-service to value-based medicine, and, eventually, to population health management, imaging is facing the imperative to redefine its role in the care continuum. “We’ll be focused closely on value and outcome measures in the environment we’re calling imaging 3.0,” says Mike Tilkin, CIO of the American College of Radiology (ACR). “Radiologists will play pivotal roles throughout the care process—from the time a study is ordered to being engaged as a consultant throughout the care cycle to being a resource to the patient.”

Hologic Facing Possible Hostile Takeover Attempt

Breast imaging manufacturer Hologic adopted a poison pill plan after billionaire activist investor Carl Ichan, 77, announced that he had acquired a nearly 13% stake in the company

Sutter Acquires Radiological Associates of Sacramento

After learning to live without Sutter Health since 2010, Radiological Associates of Sacramento (RAS) will join once again with the Northern California-based health network

USPSTF to Revisit Breast Screening Guidelines

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has announced a draft research plan for updating its 2009 breast cancer screening recommendations and is seeking public comment on that plan

Legislators Push CMS to Drop Idea of Loosening Device Maintenance Standards

Five Congressional representatives are asking CMS to not implement a proposed rule change that would allow hospitals to deviate from manufacturer maintenance recommendations for medical equipment

ACR Disagrees With CMS Breast Tomosynthesis Coding Guideline

The ACR has asked CMS to revise an online recommendation posted November 6 that tells providers to code the procedure using full-field mammography codes

13 Patient Groups Urge Congress to Reject Additional Imaging Cuts

More than 45 patient advocates representing 13 groups hand delivered a letter to members of Congress urging them to not approve policies that may hinder access to advanced medical imaging

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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.