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.
Some of the claims in the lawsuit, brought against Novant Health by Kyle Horton, MD, are backed by a report from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
The agencies said private equity firms are rolling up healthcare sectors through serialized purchases that fly under the radar of regulators, creating an unsustainable level of consolidation.
A new report from the Office of the Inspector General found the FDA failed to properly record meetings with drug manufacturers, ultimately approving drugs later shown to have safety and efficacy issues.
The integration was announced during the annual JP Morgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco. The program works through Amazon Benefits Manager to remotely help patients with weight and blood pressure management.
The Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) pre-market notification for a new diagnostic imaging tool that reports to look deep into diseased tissue.
It’s no surprise that men would prefer not to receive a colonoscopy, but just how much they prefer the alternative CT colonography was the subject of a study in the current issue of The Lancet.
With the age of digital imaging comes new considerations that radiologists had not previously thought about, such as resolution size of a digital image.
Radsite, one of the leaders in improving quality among imaging facilities, announced that it has reviewed more than 60,000 imaging systems and about 23,000 facilities.
Researchers looking at a national survey of 600 hospitals found the uninsured and Medicaid enrollees receive fewer medical imaging procedures during emergency room visits.
Breast cancer screening made the list of 26 Medicaid quality measures that states may begin reporting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services next year. Measurements excluded other forms of diagnostic imaging.