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.

Abbott works with AtaCor Medical on extravascular ICD system
Extravascular ICDs were developed to avoid complications such as vascular injuries, lead fractures and lead infections. Although rare, these issues can cause serious, life-threatening complications for patients.
UnitedHealthcare launches rural Medicare Advantage pilot to cut reimbursement delays 50%
The insurer is planning to reduce reimbursement timelines for hospitals in Oklahoma, Idaho, Minnesota and Missouri from 30 days to 15. The details are unclear, but the company said the framework could extend nationwide.
AI roundup: Of workslop and rework | Patent that tech, industry player | Artificial Intellectualism, anyone?
Across industries, more than a third of the time saved by AI gets eaten by overstretched humans who have to clean up the technology’s sloppy work.
Epic, provider groups sue companies over alleged scheme to sell patient data
In a lawsuit, the EHR giant accuses Health Gorilla, et al., of posing as patient care entities to gain access to nearly 300,000 medical records, in violation of HIPAA. Health Gorilla vehemently denies the allegations.
Senate Report: UnitedHealth was aggressive in seeking higher Medicare Advantage payments
The Wall Street Journal obtained a copy of a report from the Senate Judiciary Committee, which reviewed more than 50,000 documents sent by UnitedHealth related to its Medicare Advantage patients. The outlet published the findings of the inquiry.

KFF: It’s the Economy, Not Efficiency, That’s Really Lowering Health Care Costs

A report out today from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) adds urgency to efforts to repeal the SGR formula and keep the pressure on health care cost containment

7 Staff Management Steps to Improve Safety and Quality Issues

A new ASRT white paper sounds a warning about technologist training and staffing challenges in an era of shrinking imaging reimbursement and rapid technological change, but also offers ways to correct these issues

Cook Medical Launches Fully-Retractable Embolization Coil

New Orleans-based Cook Medical took the opportunity of the SIR meeting to introduce its new fully-retractable .035 inch embolization coil for peripheral arterial and venous embolization

DR Systems Issued New Patent

The patent covers a system for monitoring the portions of a medical image displayed at full resolution and reducing the chance of a missing an abnormality in the image due to the viewer examining a portion of the image at a different resolution or other display parameter.

Eli Lilly to Buy Siemens’ Alzheimer's Imaging Agents

Eli Lilly, the maker of the first FDA-approved Alzheimer's imaging agent, Amyvid, is acquiring two imaging agents developed by Siemens that make brain deposits of tau visible. Amyvid targets amyloid plaques

New Imaging Technique Can Distinguish Between Benign and Malignant Prostate Tissue

The technique pairs laser optics with ultrasound imaging to create multispectral photoacoustic imaging that reliably sorted malignant prostate tissue samples from benign samples

Neiman Institute to Fund 6 Studies Examining Imaging’s Value

The studies will help fulfill the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute's mission of creating a fuller evidence-based picture of the role of radiology in evolving health care delivery and payment models

JAMA Study Highlights Health Care's Perverse Incentives

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association is likely to fuel the movement towards value-based purchasing in health care. In a study of 34,000 surgeries performed at Dallas-based hospital network Texas Health, researchers found that surgeries with complications generate twice the revenue of surgeries without complications, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

Business Intelligence

Abbott works with AtaCor Medical on extravascular ICD system

UnitedHealthcare launches rural Medicare Advantage pilot to cut reimbursement delays 50%

AI roundup: Of workslop and rework | Patent that tech, industry player | Artificial Intellectualism, anyone?

Epic, provider groups sue companies over alleged scheme to sell patient data

Senate Report: UnitedHealth was aggressive in seeking higher Medicare Advantage payments