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Accurate Diagnosis: The Conduit for Value-Based Care

By: David Fisher, Head of Global Policy and Government Affairs at Siemens Healthineers Our changing healthcare system requires all of us to change along with it. Just as medical device manufacturers have to adjust to increased scrutiny of value, so do hospitals, physicians and health IT manufacturers need to modify based... Read more

by Siemens Healthineers in Cassling, Best Practices

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Why Hospitals and Health Systems Must Prove Their Value

By Ethan Brosowsky, Director and National Spokesperson, The Advisory Board Company Five years after the signing of the Affordable Care Act, hospital and health system leaders sit at the center of a dizzying array of efforts to rein in healthcare spending. Major purchasers, including Medicare, Medicaid, health plans,... Read more

by Ethan Brosowsky in Best Practices

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Bipartisan Budget Act Means No New Off-Campus Hospital Outpatient Imaging Departments

If you attended Cassling’s recent webinar, Predictions for Healthcare in 2016 & Beyond, one of the major trends we discussed was the shift to value. A number of initiatives have come out of the Affordable Care Act to cut Medicare fee-for-service payments and reward value instead of volume, but a new, recent piece of... Read more

by Kyle Salem, Ph.D. in Best Practices

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What is disrupting the health IT industry? Challenges and Opportunities.

By: David Pacitti, President of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. and Head of Siemens Healthcare’s North America Regional Organization It’s not enough to simply innovate and challenge industry standards in today’s health IT space – the real results and meaningful outcomes for patients are increasingly linked to those... Read more

by Siemens Healthineers in Cassling, Best Practices

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New Siemens Family of C-arms Offers Imaging and Workflow Benefits

With time constraints, limited resources and pressure to save money, your hospital and surgery team are likely doing everything they can to operate more efficiently. The recently FDA approved family of Siemens C-arms offers a solution to facilities who are trying to streamline workflows and increase surgical versatility... Read more

by Andy Beer in Surgical C-Arms, Best Practices

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3 Ways Hospitals Can Navigate “Act One” of CJR Payment Rule

The stage is set and the curtain goes up April 1. That’s when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) value-based payment rule will take effect. This marks the first time CMS has required participation in a value-based program. In the CJR model, hospitals are... Read more

by Mike Cassling in Best Practices

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Fixing Rural Health Care Will Take More Than Medicaid Expansion

You may have seen the article this weekend in the Omaha World-Herald about the status of rural health care. If you haven’t, you can find it here. Certainly some of the names and locations mentioned in the article hit close to home, and many are longtime, good customers of Cassling. But I’m personally disappointed that the... Read more

by Kyle Salem, Ph.D. in Cassling, Best Practices

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Upgrading to Digital X-ray Improves Value for Imaging Departments and Patients

One of the latest moves toward value-based care is the push for imaging providers to adopt digital radiography (DR). CMS will begin reducing payments for Medicare-eligible film X-rays beginning in 2017. In 2018, payment cuts extend to X-rays performed using computed radiography (CR). With more than 8,500 CR systems in... Read more

by Andy Beer in X-Ray, Best Practices

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You Can Boost Patient Satisfaction – Even When Things Go Wrong

We all like to think that each patient encounter will be a great service experience. But let’s face it; things can and do go wrong. When my mom was first diagnosed with lung cancer, she had been hospitalized for tests including a biopsy, which collapsed her lung. She needed a CT scan during her inpatient stay and no one... Read more

by Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA in Cassling, Best Practices

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Kyle Salem Connects the Dots - Predictions for the Radiology and Imaging Industries

There’s probably nothing I like more than trying to connect the dots in a complex system of things to make predictions about future behavior. I had a chance to do this with health care, in general, in a previous post. Now I’d like to take the idea just a step deeper and look at the first of the two areas closest to our... Read more

by Kyle Salem, Ph.D. in Best Practices

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Medical Device Tax Delay: Decent Industry News

In an early Christmas present to the medical device industry, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2015, which established both a budget for the Federal fiscal year (that started October 1) and made some other changes to government policy. Among them was the delay of the implementation of... Read more

by Kyle Salem, Ph.D. in Cassling, Best Practices

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Celebrating Another Year of Imaging Developments

In reflecting on 2015, the Cassling team has decided that we can sum up our year in one word: grateful. We’re grateful for our customers, colleagues and loved ones, but we’re also grateful for the continued innovations happening in radiology. There is a great sense of pride among us to be part of an industry that uses... Read more

by Mike Cassling in Cassling, Best Practices

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Will “Right Time, Right Place” Health Care Replace the Family Doctor?

In an age when you can order up fresh food and an oil change at the same time you’re browsing the latest bestsellers on Amazon.com, it’s no surprise that consumerism is also changing how we shop for and use health-care services. Patients who would have sworn an allegiance to their family doctor are demonstrating via their... Read more

by Kyle Salem, Ph.D. in Best Practices

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