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.

Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?
New survey results delve deeper into what students are seeing in their future careers as physicians and how diagnostic imaging fits into the picture.
Orthopedic trauma reads a 'significant difficulty' for radiology residents
The findings are concerning, especially considering the amount of orthopedic cases residents are involved in during call shifts, researchers caution.
FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology
Diagnostic imaging leads the way in AI product approvals by a mile, accounting for more than 70% of all applications on the list.
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.

NYU installs Siemens Flash CT

The New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center has deployed the Siemens Healthcare Somatom Definition Flash CT scanner at its Manhattan facility.

November 21, 2009

S.C. imaging center taps Zotec for billing services

Health IT company Zotec Partners has entered into a billing services contract with West Columbia, S.C.-based Lexington Radiology Associates, an imaging provider to the patients of Lexington Medical Center.

November 20, 2009

ACL Labs chose Accenx EMR

The West Allis, Wis.-based ACL Laboratories, which provides clinical and industrial laboratory testing, has chosen health information exchange company Accenx Exchange EMR.

November 20, 2009

University of Chicago installs Visage enterprise solution

The University of Chicago has installed the Visage CS thin-client enterprise solution from Visage Imaging.

November 20, 2009

Carestream inks distributor deal, launches new C-PACS

Carestream Health has inked a multi-year contract with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems to provide health IT systems for purchase by MedAssets members, including data archiving, RIS/PACS and cardiology PACS.

November 19, 2009

Medical billing company employs Imagine's rad suite

Medical billing company Dexios has chosen Technology Partners IMAGINEradiology practice management system for its billing and collection needs.

November 19, 2009

Abbott gains access to BG Medicine biomarker

Abbott and BG Medicine will partner to develop galectin-3, a protein that advances cardiac fibrosis, to better understand the evolution of heart failure.

November 18, 2009

NYU begins EHR rollout

New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center launched the first phase of its EHR system this month at Trinity Center in lower Manhattan.

November 18, 2009

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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

Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?

Orthopedic trauma reads a 'significant difficulty' for radiology residents

FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology

Clinicians want AI to show its work

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

Around the web