Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.
Chapter, a technology company based in New York City, said it tripled its revenue last year by filling a market niche designing technology for seniors—specifically, those who have questions about the Medicare program.
The publicly traded EHR and cloud healthcare IT infrastructure company confirmed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that hackers were able to breach its network in March for roughly eight hours, gaining partial access to patient record stores. The incident is being investigated.
The policy shift by Aetna to reimburse hospital stays of fewer than five days as outpatient observation encounters went into effect in January. The insurer implemented the policy to reduce friction with hospitals that previously had to seek approval for inpatient reimbursement, which was often denied. Jefferson Health is challenging the changes in court.
On Tuesday, a judge formally rejected a motion by the company to have the case dismissed. Carelon Behavioral Health, a subsidiary of Elevance, is accused of publishing an inaccurate directory of providers for those seeking mental health services.
The cloud infrastructure company said in a recent investor meeting that its heavy spending on AI has been complicated by the global GPU and CPU shortage. Some 10,000 workers have reportedly been laid off, but the true number is unknown.
GE Healthcare introduced a new fixed radiography system Aug. 2, positioning it at the high end of the category and spotlighting its capabilities as the most advanced in its family.
Surveying the landscape of well-paying jobs in reach of individuals with two-year degrees, a popular technology-business news outlet has found three of the top 10 exist within the radiological sphere.
Data scientists and software engineers at the University of Arkansas have been awarded more than $140,000 by the NIH to educate biomedical researchers on the growing role of AI in big-data analytics.
A state attorney general has indicted the physician owner of an imaging center for bribing colleagues to order unnecessary exams before performing the exams—including some with IV contrast—and submitting false claims to CMS.
In an initial comparison study involving 10 patients with high-risk prostate cancer, ultrasound tomography (UT) soundly beat 7-Tesla multiparametric MRI on detection sensitivity, 85.7% to 65.3%.