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.

GE Healthcare Launches Vascular Visualization Software

GE Healthcare this week introduced a vascular visualization software application designed to enhance digital subtraction angiography and, in turn, offer to interventional radiologists what the company deems a “new vision” of vascular flow.

ACR Advocates Inclusion Of Imaging Data, Specialist Considerations In Meaningful Use

Preliminary recommendations for Stage Two of Meaningful Use are a step in the right direction, but significant gaps in the draft advice remain, ACR IT and Informatics Committee-Government Relations Subcommittee Chair Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, told advisors to the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) in a meeting last week.

ACO Pilots Show Lower Cost Increases, Improved Care

Preliminary results from two accountable care organization (ACO) pilot projects undertaken by CIGNA indicate that both are achieving lowered growth in healthcare costs as well as simultaneous improvements in the caliber of patient care.

Insight Imaging Emerges from Chapter 11, Ready to Buy

Insight Health Services Holdings Corp., a provider of fixed-site and mobile diagnostic imaging services under the Insight Imaging name, late last week announced its emergence from Chapter 11 restructuring, thereby eliminating nearly $300 million of long-term debt. A new, $17.5 million revolving credit facility with Healthcare Finance Group will be

Radiation Threat From Airport Scanners Not Significant, Study Finds

Airport scanners pose no significant radiation threat to air travelers, according to a study published the March 28 online issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

AMA Launches First-Ever Physician App

The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced its first-ever app designed specifically for a physician audience.

Study Links Parenchymal Pattern Analysis, Cancer Risk Assessment

Analyzing mammographic parenchymal patterns to measure the density of breast tissue has the potential to help clinicians better determine a woman's breast cancer risk as well as lead to better patient care by enabling more accurate density measurements.

ANSI Project Explores Impact Of Unauthorized Health Info Access

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Shared Assessments Program earlier this week launched an initiative aimed at exploring the financial impact of unauthorized access to personal health information (PHI). Conceived with a goal of identifying frameworks for determining the economic impact of any disclosure or breach of protected