Practice Management: Page 564

SNM exceeds fundraising goal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SAN ANTONIO - The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has exceeded its fundraising goal in its five-year "Bench to Bedside" program.
June 5, 2011
SIIM: 'Meaningful use' can be mastered
By Cynthia E. Keen
WASHINGTON, DC - From a radiology perspective, federal requirements to implement healthcare IT are unnecessary at best and ridiculous at worst. But they're here to stay. At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting, the "Dwyer Lecture" provided a synopsis of achieving meaningful use, government style.
June 3, 2011
CARE bill introduced in U.S. House
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) has introduced the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence (CARE) in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.
June 2, 2011
RadNet expands with Pioneers deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services firm RadNet has signed several agreements to provide radiology services to Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District and related parties in the Imperial Valley region near San Diego.
June 2, 2011
SIIM: Social networks offer opportunities, pitfalls for radiology
By Erik L. Ridley
WASHINGTON, DC - Despite their many advantages, online social networks also offer a number of pitfalls for radiologists, according to a presentation on Friday at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting.
June 2, 2011
The Profit Center: Part 20 -- The pitfalls of fair market valuation
By Mark F. Weiss
The fair market valuation process is often unfair, blind to value, and generally ignores the true market, says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss. Learn how to fight for "fair" in agreements between radiology groups and hospitals in this latest installment.
June 2, 2011
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By Kate Madden Yee
June 1, 2011
Imaging use affected by patient age, capacity
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging utilization in stroke patients is affected by age and imaging capacity, or the number of MRI and CT scanners at any given facility, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
June 1, 2011
Fees, cost shifting may blunt cost savings from RBMs
By Kate Madden Yee
Much of the healthcare savings attributed to the use of radiology benefits managers (RBMs) are swallowed up by fees, while other "savings" may in fact simply be the shifting of healthcare costs to physicians, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
June 1, 2011
CDI promotes Tomlinson to CEO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services firm Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) has promoted Tom Tomlinson to the position of CEO of the company.
June 1, 2011
Wrong scan tops list of Pa. radiology errors
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Performing the wrong scan won out over scanning the wrong patient in a new report by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, which tallied 652 radiology mistakes that exposed patients to potential harm during a year's time.
May 31, 2011
USPTO reaffirms DR Systems PACS patent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS software developer DR Systems announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has re-examined and reallowed a patent on PACS hanging protocols that the company has been asserting against a number of its competitors.
May 31, 2011
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