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.

UPS Healthcare acquires Canadian supply chain company for $1.6B
Ontario-based Andlauer Healthcare Group ships sensitive temperature-controlled products necessary for healthcare manufacturing and research. It has agreed to be acquired by the world’s largest courier, with the all-cash deal expected to close later this year.
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AI is making patient financial advisors of hospital administrators who used to work in revenue cycle management.
Newswatch: AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more
In medicine’s next chapter, AI literacy will separate physician leaders from peer followers.
Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M
The pharmacy chain was accused of filling “millions” of unlawful prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances. Despite agreeing to the payout, the company does not admit wrongdoing.
AI newswatch: Lifecyle AI oversight, data matters, AI vs. animals, more
AI may finally end the paper chase caused by prior authorization. Or it may worsen it.

Imaging center owner/doctor charged with doing $1M-plus in fraudulent, risky-to-patients business

A state attorney general has indicted the physician owner of an imaging center for bribing colleagues to order unnecessary exams before performing the exams—including some with IV contrast—and submitting false claims to CMS.

For prostate cancer diagnostics, 7T MRI has next to nothing on ultrasound tomography

In an initial comparison study involving 10 patients with high-risk prostate cancer, ultrasound tomography (UT) soundly beat 7-Tesla multiparametric MRI on detection sensitivity, 85.7% to 65.3%.

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This week’s top industry news bites: Installations, investments, contracts, partnerships …

Radiology business developments that broke softly but may soon make waves:

Noteworthy FDA approvals of the week: Ceiling-mounted CT angiography, AI for brain-adjacent bleeds

Two companies serving medical imagers just had products cleared for marketing in the U.S.

VIDEO: CMS’s proposed PFS for 2023—a real and present threat to radiology’s capacity to contribute?

Bob Still, executive director of the Radiologist Business Management Association, believes CMS’s proposed physician fee schedule for 2023 will harm vulnerable populations and seriously injure U.S. healthcare. Hear him out.

Cooper University Health Care Selects Sectra’s Subscription Model for Enterprise Imaging

SHELTON, Conn., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) will install its enterprise imaging system at Cooper University Health Care.

Silicon Valley POCUS supplier buys Canadian AI ultrasound simplifier

Point-of-care ultrasound innovator Exo has acquired Medo AI of Edmonton, Alberta, with plans to soon make ultrasound imaging “as easy as snapping a photo on a smartphone.”

Social media for radiology residency: The surface is well-scratched, but there’s room and reason to delve deeper

Twitter is tops for diagnostic radiology residency programs using social media for education, networking and/or trainee recruitment.

Business Intelligence

UPS Healthcare acquires Canadian supply chain company for $1.6B

Newswatch: AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more

Newswatch: AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more

Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M

AI newswatch: Lifecyle AI oversight, data matters, AI vs. animals, more