Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

Are White men victims of their own top-dog status? Equity researchers eye provocative hypothesis through lens of health and wellbeing
Conventional wisdom holds that social standing and economic stability tend to manifest as long life, good health and optimal wellbeing. In the U.S., the subpopulation holding the most such power and footing is White men. So: What has happened to this demographic?
Consolidation of physician practices proceeds apace, corporatizing medicine one acquisition at a time
The days when most doctors worked in independent practice settings are fading from memory like old photoprints in a dog-eared scrapbook.
Key points to remember when performing cardiac ablations in ASCs
When CMS finalized coverage for cardiac ablations performed in ASCs, experts from HRS and ACC published recommendations for performing those procedures safely and effectively. One of the cardiologists behind that guidance shared some important takeaways with Cardiovascular Business.
Patients are discussing whole-body MRIs on Reddit, presenting opportunity for radiologists
“Radiologists are well-positioned to contribute evidence-based guidance, promote transparency, and help patients make informed decisions," experts write in Clinical Imaging.
Lumexa acquires imaging center as part of new joint venture with UPMC
Lumexa hopes to open between 8 to 10 newly constructed, “de novo” centers in 2026, including multiple ones built in partnership with UPMC.

Are White men victims of their own top-dog status? Equity researchers eye provocative hypothesis through lens of health and wellbeing

Conventional wisdom holds that social standing and economic stability tend to manifest as long life, good health and optimal wellbeing. In the U.S., the subpopulation holding the most such power and footing is White men. So: What has happened to this demographic?

Consolidation of physician practices proceeds apace, corporatizing medicine one acquisition at a time

The days when most doctors worked in independent practice settings are fading from memory like old photoprints in a dog-eared scrapbook.

Video: Samuel Jones, MD, MPH, FACC, director of Inpatient Electrophysiology at the Memorial Hospital for Chattanooga Heart Institute, and co-chair of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) guidance For electrophysiology ablation in ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), explains the details of this shift in cardiology care delivery.

Key points to remember when performing cardiac ablations in ASCs

When CMS finalized coverage for cardiac ablations performed in ASCs, experts from HRS and ACC published recommendations for performing those procedures safely and effectively. One of the cardiologists behind that guidance shared some important takeaways with Cardiovascular Business.

Patients are discussing whole-body MRIs on Reddit, presenting opportunity for radiologists

“Radiologists are well-positioned to contribute evidence-based guidance, promote transparency, and help patients make informed decisions," experts write in Clinical Imaging.

Lumexa acquires imaging center as part of new joint venture with UPMC

Lumexa hopes to open between 8 to 10 newly constructed, “de novo” centers in 2026, including multiple ones built in partnership with UPMC.

Investor-bought PCPs carry on like nothing much has changed—with caveats

Private-equity acquisitions of primary-care provider practices neither alter hospitalization rates nor affect acute-care outcomes, according to new research out of Brown University.

12 of the top technology vendors serving children’s hospitals

Epic makes the list with its enterprise inpatient EHR and related platforms. So does PCC, aka Physician’s Computer Company, which supplies pediatric-specific ambulatory EHR and practice-management products and services.

Siemens Healthineers nabs FDA clearance for 6 new IR systems

Siemens Healthineers scores FDA clearance for 6 interventional systems

Each device comes equipped with a new AI feature designed to deliver high quality imaging at lower radiation doses during IR procedures.