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.

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club
There are fewer than 40 of these 7T MRI scanners in North America, and MU Health Care’s is one of less than 10 to achieve ACR accreditation.
Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging
The accused has fessed up to secretly recording a patient with his smartphone while she underwent medical imaging.
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions
Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.
Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers
The rapid rise of CCTA represents one of cardiology’s biggest ongoing trends, but most primary care providers are still not embracing a CT-first strategy.

MD education key to curbing $30B in Medicare errors

With healthcare costs projected to climb to 20 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020, controlling spending has become a national imperative. Although physicians influence at least 60 percent of healthcare costs, there is a dramatic disconnect between physicians’ fiscal responsibility and their knowledge of healthcare resource management, according to a viewpoint published March 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Workflow success story: Process improvement initiative spurs efficiency, increases volumes

Intradepartmental process improvement efforts can significantly improve workflow and patient-centeredness in a larger academic MRI department, according to an article published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Alaskan provider installs three Toshiba US systems

Alaska Family Sonograms in Anchorage has installed three Aplio 500 ultrasound systems from Toshiba America Medical Systems.

House introduces radiologist assistant bill

Reps. Dave Reichert (R-WA), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Pete Olson (R-TX), and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) have introduced H.R. 1148, the “Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2013.”

Location, location, location: Disparity in CT use suggests gaps in evidence-based guidelines

CT scan use in N.Y. state hospitals varied by 20 percent, according to a study published online in March in the American Journal of Managed Care. The researchers also reported a surprise finding: little difference in CT utilization between teaching and nonteaching hospitals.

Thousand Oaks Radiology Group to use McKesson billing services

Thousand Oaks Radiology Group, an eight-physician practice based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has chosen McKesson Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) to provide medical billing and accounts receivable management services.

Higher Medicare spending for advanced cancer not linked to survival

As the concept of value ripples through various healthcare domains, advanced cancer treatment requires a closer look. When researchers from Dana Farber Cancer Institute reviewed spending and survival data, they observed substantial regional variation in Medicare spending for advanced cancer, but no association between spending and survival, according to a study published online March 12 in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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Radiology Business

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care.

Cardiovascular Business

Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.

Management

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club

Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers

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