Business Intelligence

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.

Major private payer encouraging employees to leave willingly
The largest Medicaid-specialized managed care organization in the U.S. is offering buyout packages to most of its 60,000 or so staff workers.
As Americans tuck into supplements like their health depends on it, specialized products are displacing multivitamins
Some of today’s most popular products promise better immune, adaptogenic, anti-inflammatory, gut, skin or joint health—or combinations of two or more of the above.
Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy
The company called the state’s regulation of pharmacy benefit managers “shortsighted,” as it would force the closure of Accredo, a specialty drug dispensary that supplies drugs it says aren’t available anywhere else in the state.
FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs
The agency had been suing the three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their alleged control of insulin prices. It reached agreements with CVS’ Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts earlier this year.
Nvidia partners with clinical note-taking company to improve suite of AI models
The collaboration between the chipmaker and Abridge, a developer of generative AI for healthcare, will involve data-sharing to improve Nvidia’s general-purpose models, which in turn will be used to make Abridge’s clinical offerings more efficient.

Enrolling with Medicare as an IDTF? Dot i’s and cross t’s around physician supervision, advises healthcare attorney

Why does CMS allow radiologists to provide imaging supervision at an unlimited number of sites?

New national board forms, opens training course in radiological AI

An educational outfit has sprung up to equip nonphysicians working in radiology—chiefly administrators, business managers and technologists—with radiologist-level fluency in AI.

Radiologists the 7th best-paid medical workers, biz mag finds

Cardiologists are the highest paid professionals in medicine, averaging $170 per hour for an annual average salary of $353,970, according to a new Forbes report.

Notable names in the news: From Butterfly to ViewRay and a few in between

Radiology business developments that broke softly this week but may soon make waves ...

FDA greenlights ortho robot, automated MRI brain modeling

FDA approvals arrive for ClearPoint Neuro and MicroPort Navibot.

‘Virtual wards’ could boost outcomes, save up to $10K per heart failure patient

Following medical discharge, a program consisting of at-home visits, telehealth appointments and clinic visits resulted in better outcomes and lower healthcare costs than typical post-discharge care.

Prostate AI cleared for U.S. sales

A medical AI startup in Omaha, Neb., has received the FDA’s blessing to market software for diagnosing prostate cancer on MRI scans.

Breathing issues, language barriers swell MRI scan times

MRI technologists serving patients who have difficulty understanding English may need to budget additional scanner time—especially when image quality largely depends on patients’ compliance with breathing instructions.

Business Intelligence

Major private payer encouraging employees to leave willingly

As Americans tuck into supplements like their health depends on it, specialized products are displacing multivitamins

Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy

FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs

Nvidia partners with clinical note-taking company to improve suite of AI models