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.

Integrating Lung CAD and PACS Streamlining Day-to-Day Usability

Fueled by promising clinical studies, computer-assisted detection (CAD) technology continues to improve early lung cancer detection: greater sensitivity, fewer false-positives.

February 14, 2009

CD/DVD Recorders across the 'Ologies'

With the ever-increasing emphasis on integrating healthcare IT solutions across the healthcare enterprise, CD and DVD recorders with their widespread and evolving capabilities have managed to fill much-needed niches within various image-dependent departmentsparticularly radiology, pathology and cardiology.

February 14, 2009

Aurora nets MRI install in Italy

Aurora Imaging Technology has installed its Aurora Dedicated Breast MRI system at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori Giovanni Pascale Hospital in Naples, Italy.

February 14, 2009

athenahealth names Robinson as EVP, COO

athenahealth, a provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, has named David E. Robinson as executive vice president (EVP) and chief operating officer (COO), effective Feb. 24.

February 14, 2009

ACR, N.Y. health department to distribute free mammo education tool

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the N.Y. State Department of Health have partnered to distribute 1,500 copies of the college's Mammography Case Review (MCR4) educational CD-ROM free of charge to physicians in approximately 600 ACR-accredited mammography facilities throughout New York.

February 14, 2009

California cardiology group chooses SRS EMR

Regional Cardiology Associates Medical Group of Carmichael,Calif., has selected the SRS hybrid EMR for its six-office, 22-provider practice.

February 12, 2009

GE to aid Mt. Sinai with patient care, throughput

GE Healthcare has signed a multi-year agreement with Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City to improve patient care through a solution that combines change management consulting and technology.

February 12, 2009

Philips adds three sites to Brilliance iCT installed base

Philips Healthcare has installed its Brilliance iCT system at the University of Chicago Medical Center; the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore.; and Villas Boas Clinic in Braslia, Brazil.

February 12, 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