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.

UPS Healthcare acquires Canadian supply chain company for $1.6B
Ontario-based Andlauer Healthcare Group ships sensitive temperature-controlled products necessary for healthcare manufacturing and research. It has agreed to be acquired by the world’s largest courier, with the all-cash deal expected to close later this year.
Newswatch: AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more
AI is making patient financial advisors of hospital administrators who used to work in revenue cycle management.
Newswatch: AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more
In medicine’s next chapter, AI literacy will separate physician leaders from peer followers.
Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M
The pharmacy chain was accused of filling “millions” of unlawful prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances. Despite agreeing to the payout, the company does not admit wrongdoing.
AI newswatch: Lifecyle AI oversight, data matters, AI vs. animals, more
AI may finally end the paper chase caused by prior authorization. Or it may worsen it.

Florida-based Sheridan Radiology and Pinellas Radiology Merge

Sheridan Radiology Services and Pinellas Radiology Associates have merged, forming the Sheridan Radiology Services of Pinellas Inc. in Florida.

Strand Diagnostics, Maker of Know Error System, Appoints New President

Strand Diagnostics, developer of the know error system, announced that it has appointed Laura Beggrow as President

GE Selects Insight Imaging As Preferred Provider of Mobile Imaging Solutions

Insight Imaging has gotten the nod to become the preferred provider of interim solutions and mobile imaging for GE Healthcare

2012 Health Care Merger and Acquisition Spending Down, Number of Deals Up

Overall spending for health care mergers and acquisitions fell by 38% in 2012, even as the total number of deals rose slightly, finds Irving Levin Associates report

Bill to Repeal IPAB Reintroduced in Congress

The bipartisan legislation to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is greeted warmly by both the ACR and AMA

Imaging Center Mergers/ Acquisitions to Slow in 2013

Hospital acquisitions of imaging centers will slow down in 2013, after years of fast-paced merger/acquisition activiy say VMG Health valuation experts

RLI and Babson College Partner to Offer MBA to RLI Participants

Participants in the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute program may now earn credits toward an MBA from Babson’s Olin Graduate School of Business

Siemens Consultancy to Address Value-based Purchasing, HACs, Readmissions

Siemens Healthcare jumped into the health-care reform fray with three new consulting services intended to help customers identify systems and processes to improve quality

Business Intelligence

UPS Healthcare acquires Canadian supply chain company for $1.6B

Newswatch: AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more

Newswatch: AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more

Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M

AI newswatch: Lifecyle AI oversight, data matters, AI vs. animals, more