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.

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Two GMs, one vision: The imaging-led, outcomes-based enterprise

McKesson

Recently imagingBiz sat down with the two of McKesson’s General Managers to discuss their views on important current imaging issues.

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School is in Session for Radiology Residents, Even when Most Professors are Sleeping

Sponsored by vRad

One of the latest offerings in vRad’s service portfolio would make for a good chapter in How to Do More with Less in Radiology, should such a book ever get written. The new program is the teleradiology giant’s Virtual Resident Workflow (VRW), and the title of the chapter on it would be something along the lines of: “While You’re Interpreting, You Could Be Teaching Too.”

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Radiology’s ongoing shift to value faces many challenges—but is better than the alternative

By attempting to shatter the status quo and shift toward value-based care, the radiology industry is, in a way, sacrificing today’s monetary gains for a better tomorrow. It’s a smart, impressively noble move, but one that hasn’t been easy—and likely won’t get much easier in the immediate future. 

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PACS & EMR Integration: Carilion Clinic Improves Speed, Connectivity and Access

Sponsored by Sectra

It was early 2015 when the team at Carilion Clinic decided they had outgrown their PACS and needed to replace their decade-old system.

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Q&A: Mary Mahoney on Breast Density Reporting Laws and the Technologies of Tomorrow

Sponsored by vRad

Mary Mahoney, MD, spoke with imagingBiz about what life is like as a department chair and shared her thoughts on several hot topics affecting breast imaging today.

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Conserus Workflow Intelligence: providing continuous improvement in a variety of ways

McKesson

For the team at the Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin (FH and MCW) in Milwaukee, Conserus Workflow Intelligence is the solution that keeps on giving.

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How can Imaging departments stay relevant and align themselves with hospital goals? And how can workflow optimization help?

McKesson

If radiology departments want to stay relevant and thrive in the U.S. healthcare industry’s shift from volume-to-value, they need to clearly demonstrate their contribution to the organization’s overall success.

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Alberta Health Services uses blind peer review to drive improved patient outcomes

McKesson

In 2011, officials at Alberta Health Services made a startling discovery. A number of CT studies in a rural community had been misinterpreted, raising questions about patient care.