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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Using Analytics to Achieve Strategic Goals: Quantum Imaging & Therapeutic Associates

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Clinical analytics for radiology can play a critical strategic role in practice development and growth, but only if the approach to aggregating and sharing analytics is effective, according to Paul Potok, DO, radiologist and board member with Quantum Imaging & Therapeutic Associates, Inc (Lewisberry, Pennsylvania), a 40-radiologist practice. “Many of the metrics we track are the same ones people have been tracking for years, but we do it differently,” Potok says. “Among other things, we make the information instantly accessible to everyone.”

Perspectives on Quality

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In the last issue of RadAnalytics, I wrote about productivity and efficiency, with an emphasis on keeping an eye to quality. I believe that those group practices that figure out the key to improving individual radiologists’ productivity (as well as overall group productivity) while adhering to patient-centered quality objectives will thrive under the new collaborative reimbursement models that we are seeing in the market.

Hospitals in NJ and Maine Take Home ACR’s First Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellence Award

Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in Bergen County, NJ, and Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, won for their excellence on multiple levels and superior patient care

ASNC Takes on SGR Reform in Testimony to Congressional Subcommittee

An American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) official spoke in favor of appropriate use criteria to reduce inappropriate cardiac imaging in his testimony to the U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee

CHIME Recommends 1-Year Extension on Stage 2 of Meaningful Use

Rather than a “reboot” of the meaningful use incentive program — as six Republican Senators asked for last month — the program just needs more time, say executives at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives

Visage Imaging Signs Deal with vRad

San Diego-based Visage Imaging Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. ,has signed a five-year agreement with vRad to implement the Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform

ACCP Backs Low-Dose CT Screening for Lung Cancer

New screening recommendations from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) recommend offering low-dose CT chest imaging as a lung cancer screening test in patients at high risk of lung cancer

Radiology Still Top Three in Highest Paid Specialties

The annual Medscape Physician Compensation Report puts the average radiologist's income at $349K, but the rate of compensation increase &mdash a tiny 1% from 2011 — is near the bottom for medical specialties

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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.