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.

Coalition Contests Proposed Imaging Payment Cuts

The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition is hotly contesting proposals to curtail Medicare payments for medical imaging tests, asserting through a report that such a move likey would pack no money-saving punch.

vRad, ICON Medical Imaging Form Clinical Trials Partnership

Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a technology-enabled national radiology practice, yesterday announced that it has formed a radiology partnership with ICON Medical Imaging (ICON), the medical imaging division of ICON plc.

What Medical Staffs Want From Radiology

Radisphere

Hospital medical staffs are increasingly expecting more from radiology—and small, traditional groups are struggling to keep up with those demands. That was the situation faced by Charles Rhoades, assistant administrator of clinical ancillary services at El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) in California.

Go/No-go for Radiology: Knowing When to Sell

VMG

Across the country, radiology groups, faced with a less-than-favorable reimbursement outlook and increasing expenditures, are considering selling their practices to or entering into joint ventures with hospitals. As with any major financial decision, a detailed discussion of the pros and cons is required, and there are several factors of which

Risk and Responsibility: Radiology and the ACO

MMP

The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act made accountable-care organization (ACO) one of the most feared buzzwords since capitation, but if the concept of ACOs is framed within its larger context, which is a nationwide collaborative-care initiative with federal support, participation begins to seem less onerous.

Love What You Do

iCRco

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.