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.
Over 97% of all counties in the U.S. see high or very high levels of consolidation in Medicare Advantage markets, with UnitedHealthcare and Humana owning the most plans nationwide.
Former Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre, MD, and other executives are accused in a $1.4 billion legal filing of paying themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, despite the health system being insolvent.
In a new report, the New York Times details multiple incidents of the insurance giant using legal threats to silence social media users and news outlets, citing the murder of Brian Thompson and the threat of rising violence as the basis for its claims.
New Federal spending figures have prompted the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reduce its estimate for the total cost of repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that 18.4% of the lung cancers detected with low-dose CT in the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial may have been indolent
Jack W. Cumming, 68, who had been a part of the top management team of Hologic Inc, Bedford, Mass., for over a decade will be replaced as president and CEO by Stryker veteran Stephen MacMillan.
In a Thursday morning open-mike/town hall session on the federal meaningful use program, Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD, offered a reality check for those incentive-happy practices that have successfully attested to Stage 1
Gaming technologies applied to high speed graphics processing is just one example of how consumer technologies are now used to improve the look and function of advanced imaging systems
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