Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

FDA Clears Konica Minolta Mammography Upgrade

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared an upgrade to a digital mammography system produced by Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA.

Demand to Increase for Medical Office Space, Imaging

Federal health reform could create greater demand for medical office space focused on ambulatory care, including medical imaging.

Virtual Autopsy Not to Replace Real Thing Soon

Medical imaging still cannot fully take the place of an actual autopsy, according to an editorial set to appear in the Jan. 17 on-line edition of the Annals of Internal Medecine.

Nashville Hospital Moves to Integrated PACS

Nashville General Hospital joins a growing number of hospitals nationwide choosing to upgrade their information systems with integrated RIS/PACS platforms.

Army Medical Students Cheated on Rad Board Exam, CNN Reports

Medical students at the military’s largest medical residency program in the country were instructed to cheat on the certification tests with the American Board of Radiology for about the past decade, according to an investigative report aired Friday on CNN.

Commoditization of Imaging: Fighting the Trend

MMP

As a macroeconomic phenomenon, commoditization is fairly characteristic of a maturing marketplace—two words that describe radiology in the United States perfectly. As the industry has matured, through increased competition and more deleterious economic pressures, radiology practices have increasingly found themselves competing on price alone,

Valuation of Imaging Centers: 2012 Outlook

VMG

If one were to chart trends in physician employment over the past 15 years, the result would closely resemble the recent wild swings seen in the stock market: significant peaks followed abruptly by equally sharp declines, according to Kevin McDonough, CFA, a senior manager for VMG Health (Dallas, Texas).

The Business Case for Patient-centered Care

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

As part of a growing trend toward giving increasingly savvy patients greater control over their health care, radiologists are taking a more active role in patient-centered care, tailoring their practices to meet consumer needs. Putting the patient first might seem obvious or intuitive, but the idea has not always been at the forefront of the