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.

Georgia practice taps McKesson for revenue cycle management

Memorial Health University Physicians in Savannah, Ga., has partnered with McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions Group for its billing and practice management services

May 28, 2009

Amicas scores Meditech contracts

Amicas has secured new contracts for its PACS product line with several Meditech hospitals in the United States.

May 27, 2009

Maryland bill forces payors to offer EMR incentives

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed a bill on May 19 intended to coax doctors into using EMRs by requiring private insurance companies to offer financial incentives for adopting the technology.

May 26, 2009

Radiologists infrequently misidentify body side of lesion

Clinically significant errors were found in reporting the body side of the lesion in radiology reports between the body and impression sections, according to a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

May 23, 2009

McKesson launches PM/EHR software

McKesson has launched Medisoft Clinical, with the new release of Medisoft v15, which combines the practice management (PM) capabilities of Medisoft v15 with the its Practice Partner Patient Records, a certified ambulatory EHR based on 2008 criteria from the Certification Commission for Health IT.

May 21, 2009

Swedish University Hospital chooses Barco displays

Barco has received an order to supply Coronis Fusion 6 megapixel DL display systems to the University Hospital of Danderyd in Sweden.

May 21, 2009

UnitedHealthcare to pay $1.5M to Maryland hospitals, radiology providers

The Maryland Insurance Administration has ordered UnitedHealthcare to pay $1.5 million to reimburse hospitals and radiology service providers for health insurance claims.

May 20, 2009

Health IT panel vows to support physician, hospital daily practice

Members of the Health IT Standards Committee, established to advise the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), said it would create three work groups to pursue that agenda in the areas of clinical operations, clinical quality and privacy and security.

May 20, 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