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.

Love What You Do

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One can’t help but seek significance in the death of someone as iconic as Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs. Of all the things that he meant to those of us who have made our careers in the business world, among the most important and lasting, I believe, is that he had a unique and highly visible passion and love for his chosen path. Yes, he was a

Conversion to ICD-10 to Run Into Multi-Millions, CMS Says

Costs associated with conversion to the ICD-10 code set may total $640 million in 2013 alone, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed Wednesday during a briefing virtual briefing held by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

GOP Senators to Supercommittee: Repeal Health Care Reform Law

The supercommittee tasked with reducing the U.S. budget deficit would do well to repeal President Obama’s health care reform law, as well as to significantly alter Medicare and Medicaid alike, say Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee.

Merge Healthcare RIS Receives Meaningful Use Certification

Merge Healthcare, a Chicago-based provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, announced that its Merge RIS v7.0 radiology information system has been certified for Meaningful Use.

Imaging Utilization On the Rise in Emergency Departments

Utilization rates for imaging procedures in hospital emergency departments (EDs) are increasing, indicates a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Advanced Imaging Utilization Study Gets Underway

An assessment of appropriate advanced imaging utilization for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, being conducted on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is now underway.

GE Healthcare Garners FDA Clearance For SenoBright Technology

GE Healthcare today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its SenoBright1 Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) technology.

Harkin Protests Potential Cuts to Prevention and Public Health Fund

The “super-committee” charged by President Obama with slashing $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion from the U.S. budget deficit over the next 10 years should not accomplish part of this task by cutting $3.5 billion from the $15 billion Prevention and Public Health Fund.