Practice Management: Page 512

New firm MDH offers breast readings, mobile biopsy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new imaging services company, MDH Radiology, has been launched to provide remote and subspecialized breast imaging reading, as well as mobile breast biopsy services, the company said.
April 16, 2013
Neiman Institute awards 1st imaging grants
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology's Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute has doled out its first research grants to support studies assessing the role of diagnostic imaging in today's changing healthcare payment and delivery structure.
April 16, 2013
SIR salutes gold medalists
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has honored three interventional radiologists with the Gold Medal at its annual meeting in New Orleans this week.
April 16, 2013
ARRS: Take care in setting up peer-review programs
By Wayne Forrest
WASHINGTON, DC - Most radiologists polled in a recent survey agree that peer review is an important component of any quality assurance initiative. But most would rather see peer review conducted anonymously, according to a study presented Monday at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.
April 15, 2013
Former Dartmouth-Hitchcock radiology resident files suit
By Eric Barnes
Former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center radiology resident Christyna Faulkner has sued the hospital and four of its physicians alleging wrongful termination, discrimination, and disclosure of personal medical information, according to news reports and a petition she filed at the website change.org.
April 14, 2013
Medical industry leaders push for U.S.-EU rules convergence
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical technology industry leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have come together in a push for regulatory convergence as part of the U.S.-EU High Level Regulatory Cooperation Forum.
April 11, 2013
HITRUST publishes cybersecurity guideline
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has published a guidance document to assist healthcare providers in assessing their organization's state of cybersecurity preparedness.
April 11, 2013
CMS publishes guidance on meaningful use audits
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published guidance documents on audits for the meaningful use electronic health record incentive program.
April 11, 2013
President's 2014 budget takes on self-referral
By Kate Madden Yee
In its 2014 budget plan released April 10, the Obama administration has directly targeted self-referral, proposing that certain imaging services be excluded from the in-office ancillary services exception to the federal Stark law. Unfortunately, the budget also proposes prior authorization for imaging services.
April 10, 2013
AMIC criticizes White House budget plan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) is taking exception to Medicare imaging prior authorization requirements in the Obama administration's 2014 proposed budget.
April 10, 2013
Death of the general radiologist: Have reports been exaggerated?
By Saurabh Jha, MD
In times of shortage, we find out what we value most. And in these times of relative penury in the job market for radiologists, it appears that employers value -- above and beyond anything else -- the general radiologist.
April 10, 2013
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JACR: Work efficiencies slim when scans read by different rads
By Kate Madden Yee
Little to no physician work efficiencies exist when different providers interpret different imaging scans on the same patient, according to a new study published online April 9 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
April 9, 2013
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