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.
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.
Florida hospitals sue nonprofit over ‘pay-to-play’ safety rankings
Five Tenet Healthcare hospitals are suing the Leapfrog Group, accusing the organization of pressuring hospitals to share internal data in exchange for higher scores in its annual safety rankings. The watchdog outright denies the claim.

Radiologists Develop New Guidelines for Managing Acute Low-Back Pain

Treatment for acute low-back pain is one of the most common reasons for visits to physicians in the outpatient setting ...

McKesson Acquires MED3OOO

McKesson and MED3OOO have announced a definitive agreement in which McKesson will acquire MED3OOO.

Radiologist at Center of N.J. Kickback Case Pleads Guilty

Ashokkumar Babaria, MD, a 62-year-old radiologist from Moorestown, N.J., has pleaded guilty in Federal Court ...

FDA Issues Safety Notification for Florida Mammography Provider

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a safety notification for Medisound, Inc./Digital Radiology Center, in Kissimmee, Fla., which it says was performin

West Penn Allegheny Health System Pulls Out of Highmark Deal

The proposed affiliation between financially stressed West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) and Pittsburg-based insurance provider Highmark Inc. that set off a legal fight between Highmark and WPAHS competitor the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) may not happen after all.

Merger Creates Pacific Northwest Behemoth

Inland Imaging Associates PS and Seattle Radiologists APC will merge to form one of the largest professional radiology groups in the West.

New Hampshire Hospital May Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Handling of Hep C Outbreak

A New Hampshire lawyer has announced plans for a class action suit against Exeter Hospital, which employed a temporary radiologic technologist now facing criminal charges

ACR Wants Your Help in Celebrating First International Day of Radiology

The first annual International Day of Radiology (IDoR) is on November 8, 2012, which marks the anniversary of the 1895 discovery of the X-ray. The day recognizes the tremendous advances in patient care made possible by radiologists, radiation oncologists and medical imaging.

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

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

Florida hospitals sue nonprofit over ‘pay-to-play’ safety rankings