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Members of the American College of Radiology (ACR) urged the U.S. House of Representatives Rural Caucus against using radiology benefits managers (RBMs) in the Medicare system and against a proposed imaging equipment utilization rate change from 50 to 95 percent at a Capitol Hill briefing held June 24.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) have developed best practice guidelines for third-party payors, managed care organizations, radiology benefit managers, and imaging providers for use when implementing or evaluating a radiology benefits management program.
The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has expressed its support for the health policy goals presented in President Barack Obama's federal budget, but cautions that the budget's proposed reliance on radiology benefit managers (RBMs) will deny imaging services.
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An alliance of healthcare providers, technology companies and diagnostic imaging organizations have formed the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition to promote health IT-enabled decision-support for diagnostic imaging, or e-ordering.
GE and Siemens intend to lobby Congress to block President Barack Obama's plan to require diagnostic imaging pre-authorization for Medicare beneficiaries.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.