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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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Conn. radiologist fined, reprimanded after patient data breach

Gerald Micalizzi, MD, a Connecticut radiologist formerly employed by Advanced Mobile Imaging Radiology, has been fined $20,000 after downloading patients personal information, according to a Valley Independent Sentinel report.

Chinese e-hospital selects Barco clinical displays

Barco has been awarded a contract to provide MDRC-2120 Clinical Review Displays for an e-hospital project that includes over 60 sites in Gansu Province, China.

Radiology: An ounce of planning goes a long way in curbing vascular interventional radiology errors

An observation study has determined that failures during vascular interventional radiology procedures are most often attributed to ineffective planning, communication errors or equipment difficulties, not technical skill or patient-related issues, according to an article published online June 5 in Radiology.

JACR: NLP shows reports dont measure up to PQRS requirements

A considerable portion of radiology reports do not include all components of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measure 10, with high levels of variability for individual physician adherence, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

SIIM: Time to hop on the social media train

 ORLANDO, Fla.The social media train has left the station, according to Safwan S. Halabi, MD, of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Practices need to get onboard, he said. Otherwise, physicians and medical practices will be defined, perhaps negatively, by outsiders. During a June 7 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), Halabi urged attendees to understand and control social media.

Lancet: Childhood CTs may triple risk of some cancers, but keep concerns in check

Children receiving two to three CT scans of the head have three times the risk of developing brain cancer later in life, while five to 10 scans triples the risk of developing leukemia, according to a study published online June 7 in The Lancet. It represents the first study to quantify cancer risks stemming from CT radiation in childhood, according to the authors.

Wis.-based Community Health Network taps Merge for archive, image sharing

Community Health Network (CHN), a healthcare system based in east-central Wisconsin, has selected Merge Healthcares iConnect VNA and iConnect Access to provide real-time access to images and patient information across its network.

Need a job? Consider healthcare informatics field

Online job postings for healthcare informatics show an unprecedented demand for the trade, outpacing other healthcare occupations.

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Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.