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.
The Wall Street Journal said that President Donald Trump has yet to meet with company representatives. However, UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley reportedly met with members of the administration in Washington.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of Mo-Vis BVBA joysticks after a faulty firmware version was linked to the malfunction. Users will need to have their devices upgraded.
In a Harris Poll, the vast majority (84%) of frontline healthcare workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs, though most said they’d consider staying in their current role if provided an opportunity for education and career advancement.
Epic’s attempt to have a lawsuit filed by startup Particle Health dismissed was unsuccessful. However, a U.S. district court judge narrowed the claims and rejected accusations that Epic engaged in defamation.
The fee-for-service Medicare program and its beneficiaries would reap significant savings if Radiology Benefits Management (RBM) programs were adopted by Medicare, according to a recent study by Magellan Health Services. Commissioned by Magellan's NIA subsidiary and conducted by Milliman, Inc., an independent actuarial and consulting firm, the
Measuring a patient’s glomerular rate before administering a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) can eliminate new cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), according to a study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School and slated for publication in the July issue of Radiology.
Siemens Healthcare has announced the appointment of Gregory Sorensen, MD, as CEO of Siemens Healthcare in the U.S., effective June 1. Sorensen succeeds Randy Hill, who had served as interim CEO.
Reflecting a trend taking hold in many vertical sectors, digital channels will overtake traditional ones in conveying hospitals’ marketing messages, according to a survey of more than 100 hospitals and healthcare systems conducted by Farmington, Connecticut-based Acsys Interactive, an interactive marketing and development company.
Representatives from five medical specialties—radiologists among them—last week offered their final proposed changes to the draft guidelines for Stage 2 of the U.S. government's Meaningful Use Stimulus Program. The contingent of physicians—who aside from radiologists included pathologists, ophthalmologists, surgeons, and specialists in the areas of
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to conduct comparative clinical effectiveness research, has named Joe V. Selby, MD, M.P.H., as its first executive director.
Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Fund (HI Trust Fund) will be totally depleted in 2024, five years earlier than originally projected, according to the Medicare Trustees Report issued last Friday.
The health care sector continues to flourish, adding more than 37,000 jobs in April 2011 and 295,000 jobs since April of 2010, reveals employment data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.