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.

Healthcare AI newswatch: FDA’s AI gambit, FDA’s blind spot, everybody’s agentic AI, more
The FDA is getting AI-aggressive about speeding up device reviews. Its plan is to unleash generative AI on tedious and repetitive tasks.
Private equity firm Deerfield earmarks $600M for healthcare investments
Deerfield Management released details on its latest Healthcare Innovations Fund program, promising to finance “promising therapeutics” and “elevating emerging technologies," including artificial intelligence.
UnitedHealth sued by shareholders over concealing fallout of Thompson's murder
In a lawsuit, plaintiffs allege the company changed course from a long-standing policy of denying medical claims, hiding from investors its impact on profits. The insurer denies any wrongdoing and vowed to defend itself in court.
Most of U.S. supply of iodine contrast may soon be subject to 25% tariffs
If President Trump initiates a 25% tariff against pharmaceuticals imported from Ireland, it might impact the price for X-ray iodine contrast agents in the U.S.
Report: Former TV writer exploiting ACA to sell bare-bones insurance plans
Bloomberg writes about a company, Quick Health, run by a former comedy writer, who through a loophole in the law is accused of "hiring" members for fake jobs to enroll them in junk insurance policies.

CBO Budget Report Confirms No Savings From Imaging Prior Authorization

In its report on the President’s 2014 fiscal budget, the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) agreed with the White House that no savings should be anticipated from requiring third-party prior authorization for advanced imaging services — news that gave those opposed to the requirement another opportunity to make their case

Henry Ford-Beaumont Merger Called Off

Merger talks between the two Detroit-area health systems ended over differences in corporate cultures and concerns from Beaumont’s clinical chiefs, reports Crain’s Detroit Business

Medical Insight Updates their Imaging Solution and Releases Mobile Viewer

Medical Insight has released EasyViz 5.0, its latest diagnostic imaging solution, along with EasyViz Enterprise Web, a mobile image viewer

Hologic Receives FDA Approval for New Breast Tomosynthesis Software

Hologic's new C-View 2D imaging software got the green light from the FDA, a development that will lead to less scanning time and lower radiation for patients, the company says

ACR Teleradiology Task Force Proposes Guidelines

The 1-year-old ACR Teleradiology Task Force has published its first best-practice guidelines for teleradiology in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)

GE Healthcare Breaks Ground on S.C. Helium Liquefaction Facility

The $17 million helium liquefaction facility in Florence, S.C., will be an extension of GE’s current MR production plant there. The plant uses roughly 5.5 million liters of helium a year in the manufacture of MR devices, the company said

ACR Seeks to Raise $5 Million for Leadership Institute

The ACR knows that keeping radiology central to the delivery of high quality health care will not happen without strong leadership, and it wants to put some serious money behind its effort to grow the next generation of radiology leaders

ARRT Names Two New Board Trustees

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) has appointed Lisa Bartenhagen, M.S., R.T., and Barbara J. Smith, M.S., R.T., FASRT, FAEIRS, to four-year terms on its Board of Trustees, beginning August 1, 2013

Business Intelligence

Healthcare AI newswatch: FDA’s AI gambit, FDA’s blind spot, everybody’s agentic AI, more

Private equity firm Deerfield earmarks $600M for healthcare investments

UnitedHealth sued by shareholders over concealing fallout of Thompson's murder

Most of U.S. supply of iodine contrast may soon be subject to 25% tariffs

Report: Former TV writer exploiting ACA to sell bare-bones insurance plans