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.
The companies argue that the U.S. Department of Justice has failed to adequately demonstrate how, and in which regions of the country, the merger would harm competition. They are asking a federal court to throw out the case.
The motion is being advanced by religious groups and hedge funds alike, with the decision to develop a report set to be voted on at the UnitedHealth Group 2025 annual meeting.
The new law will require private equity firms to make disclosures related to organizational structure and finances if they intend to operate a medical facility or provider organization in the state.
While artificial intelligence engineers and consultants took the top two spots, physical therapists and advanced practice providers also landed among the 25 fastest growing jobs in the U.S.
A new final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bans reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports or factoring them into credit scores.
This year's RSNA left no room for doubt: If you're just talking about image management within the radiology department, you might as well not be talking at all
Elliot Fishman, MD, of Johns Hopkins, was just one of many at RSNA 2013 urging radiology as a profession to start acknowledging the power of social media — as well as the risks of abstaining from it
Radiology Associates of North Texas, based in Forth Worth, Tex, held onto the top spot in the annual Radiology Business Journal ranking of largest radiology practices by full-time equivalent (FTE) radiologists
David Kwiatkowski, a fentanyl-addicted radiology technician who had worked at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, had already pleaded guilty to infecting at least 46 patients with hepatitis C in exchange for limiting his sentence to no more than 40 years
The experience of health care providers in Massachusetts is valuable to consider when examining how health care reform might impact the role of radiologists in the future, noted speakers at a Monday morning RSNA session
Call it structured, call it actionable, or call it both -- whatever name you give it, it's undeniable that improving radiology reports is a significant trend at this year's RSNA
The final 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes particularly harsh news for providers of image-guided breast biopsies, and threatens a 24% reimbursement cut to all physicians if the SGR is allowed to go into effect on New Year's Day
Creating a common system of radiology procedure names is an important step in achieving interoperability of radiology test results in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange, say the two organizations