Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Is IT System Consolidation in Your Cards?

Many of you are sending staff off to the the annual HIMSS meeting in Chicago, and a helpful concept to keep in mind would be the following: Few things are more complex than making something simple.

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Don’t look now, but there may be an ad agency in your scanner

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Today every forward-thinking radiology practice realizes that, in these times of falling reimbursement, rising regulatory oversight and cascading calls for transparency, it’s not enough to be great at what you do.

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Go ‘e’ or keep bleeding dollars, U.S. healthcare

The U.S. healthcare system stands to save $8 billion a year just by going electronic with six routine business transactions. But realizing the thrift will take an ongoing commitment by all healthcare stakeholders—providers, payers, vendors and government. 

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3-D heart imaging shown to be ‘keeping its PROMISE’

Doctors ordering exams on patients who show signs of heart disease really can’t go wrong if they choose high-tech computed tomographic angiography (CTA) over time-honored stress testing. 

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Hunting an elephant

“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events, the vaguer it becomes,” George Orwell wrote in Shooting an Elephant. The elephant hunt begins this week as the debate over the language used in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes center stage in the US Supreme Court.

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CMS extends attestation deadline

On February 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an extension to the attestation deadline for Medicare EHR Incentive Program reporting periods that occurred in calendar year (CY) 2014. 

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Achieving 2015 goals: Are you ready for ICD-10?

Did you make a new year’s resolution this year? Have you kept it? You may not be alone.

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Refurbished medical equipment market projected to grow, and fast

When it comes to purchasing medical equipment, selecting secondhand doesn’t have to mean settling for second-rate.