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.

Including CT Colongraphy into HEDIS Can Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Compliance

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates increased when CT colonography (CTC) was included as a HEDIS-compliant CRC test, according to a JACR study

Global Breast Imaging Market Will Grow to $5 Billion by 2017, According to New Report

The global breast imaging market will grow to approximately $5 billion by 2017 at a CAGR of 15.37% from 2012, according to marketandmarkets.com

Chinese Imaging Provider Acquires Ownership Interest in MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center

Concord Medical Services, based in China, has closed the acquisition of 19.98% of indirect ownership of the University of Texas MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center

iCAD Digital CAD Approved for Use with Philips Digital Mammography System

The FDA has approved iCAD’s PowerLook Advanced Mammography Platform (AMP), with Digital CAD for Philips’ MicroDose Full-Field Digital Mammography System

ACS Comes Out in Favor of CT Lung Cancer Screening for Heavy Smokers

The move by the influential American Cancer Society (ACS) will push more payors to cover the test and adds pressure to develop national guidelines and practice standards

New Meaningful Use Guidance Clarifies the Radiology Hardship Exception

The exception will apply to diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and interventional radiology, but not to radiation oncologists

Changing Imaging Vendors: Provider Engagement Is Key to Smooth Transitions

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

When Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System (BSA), Amarillo, Texas, decided (in early 2012) to replace two of its MRI systems—one in an outpatient center and the other in the hospital—it faced the prospect of changing imaging-equipment vendors in at least one of the facilities, as each had a different vendor’s MRI unit. What the two systems had in

Imaging's 2013 Merger/Acquisition Outlook: Rounding the Bend

VMG

Following several years of fast-paced merger/acquisition activity, the imaging market is poised to turn a corner in 2013, according to valuation experts Elliott Jeter, CFA, CPA/ABV, and Todd Sorensen, AVA, both partners with VMG Health. “This will be the year where pricing for imaging centers gets too high from the patient’s perspective,” Jeter