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.
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AI is making patient financial advisors of hospital administrators who used to work in revenue cycle management.
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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.
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AI may finally end the paper chase caused by prior authorization. Or it may worsen it.

Oslo Screening Trial Finds Higher Cancer Detection With Tomosynthesis

Study concludes that 3D mammography combined with 2D breast exam finds significantly more cancers than a 2D breast exam alone

Including CT Colongraphy into HEDIS Can Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Compliance

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates increased when CT colonography (CTC) was included as a HEDIS-compliant CRC test, according to a JACR study

Global Breast Imaging Market Will Grow to $5 Billion by 2017, According to New Report

The global breast imaging market will grow to approximately $5 billion by 2017 at a CAGR of 15.37% from 2012, according to marketandmarkets.com

Chinese Imaging Provider Acquires Ownership Interest in MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center

Concord Medical Services, based in China, has closed the acquisition of 19.98% of indirect ownership of the University of Texas MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center

iCAD Digital CAD Approved for Use with Philips Digital Mammography System

The FDA has approved iCAD’s PowerLook Advanced Mammography Platform (AMP), with Digital CAD for Philips’ MicroDose Full-Field Digital Mammography System

ACS Comes Out in Favor of CT Lung Cancer Screening for Heavy Smokers

The move by the influential American Cancer Society (ACS) will push more payors to cover the test and adds pressure to develop national guidelines and practice standards

New Meaningful Use Guidance Clarifies the Radiology Hardship Exception

The exception will apply to diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and interventional radiology, but not to radiation oncologists

Changing Imaging Vendors: Provider Engagement Is Key to Smooth Transitions

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

When Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System (BSA), Amarillo, Texas, decided (in early 2012) to replace two of its MRI systems—one in an outpatient center and the other in the hospital—it faced the prospect of changing imaging-equipment vendors in at least one of the facilities, as each had a different vendor’s MRI unit. What the two systems had in

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