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.

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club
There are fewer than 40 of these 7T MRI scanners in North America, and MU Health Care’s is one of less than 10 to achieve ACR accreditation.
Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging
The accused has fessed up to secretly recording a patient with his smartphone while she underwent medical imaging.
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions
Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.
Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers
The rapid rise of CCTA represents one of cardiology’s biggest ongoing trends, but most primary care providers are still not embracing a CT-first strategy.

Bycast scores Hawaii install

Hawaii Pacific Health, based in Honolulu, has standardized on Bycast StorageGRID software to store and protect images in its multi-facility medical image storage system.

Mail, electronic reminders may increase colon cancer screening

Mailed reminders to patients appear to promote colon cancer screening, according to a report in the Feb. 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, electronic reminders to physicians appear to increase screening among patients with more frequent primary care visits.

Cigna drops Ingenix, funds independent reimbursement database

Cigna has ceased its use of the discredited Ingenix databases and partnered with N.Y. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo to create an independent not-for-profit organization to administer a new database that will determine charges for covered care from doctors outside its network.

Pennsylvania health system installs Allocade app

PinnacleHealth of Harrisburg, Pa., has installed Allocades On-Cue system, alongsidea recently installed Aquilion One Dynamic Volume CT from Toshiba America Medical Systems.

Agfa scores Impax contract in Singapore

Agfa HealthCare has completed the deployment of its Impax HeartStation electrocardiogram (ECG) management system at the National Heart Centre in Singapore.

ACR seeks comments on epilepsy PQRI measures

The American College of Radiology (ACR), in conjunction with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), is seeking comments on eight performance measures developed for epilepsy.

The Road to Quality and Quantitative Medicine

Healthcare, like most of the U.S. economy, is at a crossroads. In order to prosper in an environment of increasing constraints and controlled costs, while feeding the need to enhance quality and outcomes, more proficient use of information technology (IT) in healthcare is needed.

Building Business: Adding New Imaging Service Lines

Community hospitals that add new clinical services to better meet local needs can garner multiple benefits ranging including improved patient care and increased revenue. This month, Health Imaging & IT visits a pair of community hospitals that added new service lines to their portfolio to better meet local needs. Their business models provide a sound roadmap for other sites.

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Radiology Business

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care.

Cardiovascular Business

Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.

Management

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club

Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers

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