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.

Teenage cannabis users twice as likely as non-users to develop psychosis, bipolar disorder
The new research doesn’t solve the mystery of which tends to come first—the mental illness or the drug use. Regardless, the large study serves to underscore the need for proactive and preventive measures.
Cardiologist says new legislation would delay flawed payment cuts, preserve access to care
The efficiency adjustment cuts introduced in the 2026 MPFS are based on assumptions many doctors believe to be false. The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and other medical societies are pushing back.
Nurse suing hospital for failing to head off vicious attack by patient
A hospital and its security contractor are facing legal trouble over a brutal beating taken by a unit nurse at the hands of a mentally ill inpatient a year ago.
Heart failure company BioVentrix files for IPO
The company, known for its advanced heart failure technologies, hopes to be traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol BVXX.
GE HealthCare nabs 3 notable MRI FDA clearances
On Feb. 19, the company announced the clearance of two new MRI systems and one artificial intelligence-enabled workflow platform.

Teenage cannabis users twice as likely as non-users to develop psychosis, bipolar disorder

The new research doesn’t solve the mystery of which tends to come first—the mental illness or the drug use. Regardless, the large study serves to underscore the need for proactive and preventive measures.

Friederike Keating, MD, director, nuclear cardiology, at University of Vermont Health, and chair of American Society of nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) Health Policy Committee, explains the support behind House Bill 7520 that aims to halt the Medicare's 2.5% efficiency adjustment cut to physician payments that was included in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

Cardiologist says new legislation would delay flawed payment cuts, preserve access to care

The efficiency adjustment cuts introduced in the 2026 MPFS are based on assumptions many doctors believe to be false. The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and other medical societies are pushing back.

Nurse suing hospital for failing to head off vicious attack by patient

A hospital and its security contractor are facing legal trouble over a brutal beating taken by a unit nurse at the hands of a mentally ill inpatient a year ago.

Heart failure company BioVentrix files for IPO

The company, known for its advanced heart failure technologies, hopes to be traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol BVXX.

GE HealthCare earns 3 new MRI FDA clearances

GE HealthCare nabs 3 notable MRI FDA clearances

On Feb. 19, the company announced the clearance of two new MRI systems and one artificial intelligence-enabled workflow platform.

Gore completes acquisition of medtech company behind next-gen heart device

Gore has officially acquired Conformal Medical, the company known for an investigational LAAO device that uses a proprietary foam implant. The transaction was first announced in January.

The Medtronic Symplicity Spyral Renal Denervation system uses a catheter that curls in the renal artery to place radiofrequency electrodes against the vessel wall to ablate the nerves that control vasodilation, so the artery can be propped in the fully open position.

Medtronic’s RDN system receives new reimbursement approval

More than 40 million adults now have improved access to Medtronic's Symplicity Spyral renal denervation technology.

Health system redesigns its imaging management structure around modalities, rather than operating lines

At Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, this fractured approach had resulted in uneven technologist staffing, variable asset utilization and scheduling, and diverging modality quality and safety practices.