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.

Clinicians want AI to show its work
Providers are more likely to trust AI when they understand how it arrives at its conclusions.
Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade
The new appropriate use criteria define 17 specific clinical scenarios, guiding providers on situations when amyloid or tau imaging are and are not appropriate.
Female representation in interventional radiology still lagging behind other specialties
The number of female IR trainees has been on the rise for years, but this growth is slow in comparison to other medical professions.
ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms
Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, explains how the new Assess-AI National Radiology Data Registry is designed to help monitor accuracy and other metrics for radiology artificial intelligence.
FDA seeking nominations for mammography advisory committee
The National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee provides guidance and recommendations related to the standards by which facilities are regulated.

Cleveland Clinic taps Agfa for enterprise PACS

The Cleveland Clinic has installed Agfa HealthCares Impax 6.5, the latest version of the software, as the networks PACS.

December 9, 2011

RSNA: Mass. healthcare reform may not work as national model

While the 2006 healthcare reform law in Massachusetts, referred to as the Accountable Health Care Act, served as a model for national healthcare reform, a closer look at the states statistics showed it may not make an effective federal system, according to a presentation on Nov. 29 the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago.

December 9, 2011

Microsoft offers most of its health IT platform to GE venture

General Electric, through its Healthcare IT business, and Microsoft are plan to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organizations and professionals use system-wide tools to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience.

December 9, 2011

RSNA: Merge shows off Honeycomb and iConnect

Merge Healthcare showcased their move to the cloud with Merge Honeycomb and demonstrated its suite of interoperability tools at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.

December 9, 2011

HA: Vertebroplasty saga highlights perils of comparative effectiveness

Comparative effectiveness research can often lead to improved medical practice when a procedure is shown to be effective, but what happens when a procedure, especially a popular one, is shown to be ineffective?

December 9, 2011

CDW: Health IT professionals confident in budget increase predictions

Among IT decision-makers who believe their IT budgets will increase next year, those working in healthcare are the most confident that theyll have more to spend. Responding to a survey, 53 percent of health IT professionals who presumed budget increases in the next six months also indicated high levels of confidence in their presumptions.

December 8, 2011

AJR: CT may be unnecessary in stable blunt force trauma patients

The clinical yield of chest, abdomen and pelvis CT among patients presenting to the emergency department after motorized blunt force trauma and with normal clinical exams was low and did not alter clinical management, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

December 7, 2011

Economists encourage using more therapies like beta-blockers

Using cardiovascular disease as a test bed, two health economists developed a model for categorizing technologies and their impact on healthcare outcomes and costs. Despite successful technologies such as beta-blockers, the overall use of expensive technologies with modest benefits contributed to rising costs, the researchers noted in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

December 7, 2011

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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.

Management

Clinicians want AI to show its work

Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade

Female representation in interventional radiology still lagging behind other specialties

ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms

FDA seeking nominations for mammography advisory committee

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