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.

peerVue bolsters customer list in Q1

peerVue reported that is has added five new customers for its qiVue product in the first quarter of 2009.

May 13, 2009

Hospitalist firm outsources revenue cycle operations to McKesson

IN Compass Health has outsourced its revenue cycle operations to McKesson; under terms of the agreement, McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions will handle billing and collections.

May 12, 2009

Pennsylvania payor to give docs $1M for EHR training

Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark will contribute $1 million to provide training and support for doctors who adopt an EHR system.

May 9, 2009

Aspyra scores Illinois LIS install

Aspyra has entered into an agreement with Springfield Clinic in Springfield, Ill., a multi-specialty physicians group, to upgrade the laboratory's existing laboratory information system (LIS) to Aspyra's CyberLAB LIS, version 7.2.

May 7, 2009

ED physicians urged to consider imaging history when ordering CT

Physicians should review a patient's CT imaging history in the emergency department (ED) and cumulative radiation dose when considering whether to perform another CT exam, according to a study in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

May 7, 2009

Siemens notches milestone Somatom CT order

Siemens Healthcare will install its 300th Somatom Definition AS (Adaptive Scanner) CT at Community Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Staunton, Ill.

May 6, 2009

ECRI issues health technology watch list for 2009

High-field strength MRI and high-slice-count CT are top technologies that hospital c-suite executives need to keep their eyes on in 2009, according to a technology watch list released Monday by the ECRI Institute.

May 5, 2009

Oklahoma rad group selects Amicas billing management solution

Tract Radiology in Tulsa, Okla., has contracted for Amicas Financials, a Windows-based solution that provides CashFinder Worklists to automate the identification and management of denials and follow-up workflows.

May 5, 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

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