Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Imaging industry names in the news: Canon, Medality, Viz.ai, more

Promaxo Inc. of Oakland, Calif., sold eight of its systems for performing AI-equipped, MRI-guided prostate interventions in the fourth quarter of 2022. The company launched a year prior and has now topped $15 million in sales.  

January 17, 2023

Groups clash with CMS over independent dispute resolution

The heads of RBMA and three other medical management associations are locking arms and pointing their voices in the general direction of Washington.

January 13, 2023
Healthcare M&A, mergers and acquisitions business deal.

GE HealthCare eyes IR guidance company, releases revenue results

Less than a week after ringing the Nasdaq opening bell to showcase its long-awaited independence, GE HealthCare has announced a first strategic acquisition is in the works.

January 11, 2023
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Autonomous radiology stalwart taking health insurance internal

The independent-practice coalition Strategic Radiology has founded a captive health insurance program to offer its 1,500 or so member physicians and their respective support staffs.  

January 10, 2023

GE HealthCare hires former Amazon, FDA exec to oversee science and technology operations

A med-tech leader of note is taking skills refined at Amazon, the FDA and the CDC to GE HealthCare, where he will serve as the newly independent company’s first CTO. 

January 9, 2023

Imaging industry names in the news: GE HealthCare, OncoNano, NeuroLogica, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes and Inhibrx

GE HealthCare has begun trading as an independent company on the Nasdaq exchange. To mark the occasion and showcase its completed spinoff from General Electric, the company remotely rang the opening bell at Nasdaq from its manufacturing facility in Waukesha, Wis.

January 6, 2023

Radiologists 2 of the 3 best-paid physicians in Canadian maritime province

A published list shows all three grossing an annual salary of at least $1.95 million in Canadian Medicare billings.

January 4, 2023
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Regulatory nod granted to inhalable gas contrast for hyperpolarized lung MRI

The FDA has cleared Polarean Imaging’s xenon gas-based MRI contrast agent for evaluating pulmonary function in patients aged 12 years and up.

January 3, 2023

Around the web

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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