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.

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Healthcare AI often arrives with great expectations only to disappoint end-users as well as execs. Why is that?

By and large, U.S. hospitals and health systems do not have an AI adoption problem. But many—if not most—have an execution problem: They struggle to turn a set of installed AI tools into a measurable operational value. 

Healthcare administrators: Need help holding PCPs accountable? Here it is from focus-group research

Family physicians and other primary care providers don’t mind being held to account for care quality by healthcare administrators. The rub is that multiple other stakeholders often demand similar levels of answerability, pulling the doctors in different directions at once. 

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Radiopharmaceutical manufacturer secures $30M to bolster domestic isotope production

Although the company is already bringing in revenue from medical radioisotopes, the new funding will help further these initiatives and drive additional research and development.

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Medtronic leads $100M investment in artery denervation company

Pulnovo Medical, a global medtech company, plans on using the funds for clinical development, regulatory submissions, commercialization and much more. 

Darryl Drevna, senior director of regulatory affairs, American Medical Group Association (AMGA), explains the issues that led to the current shortages of staff across healthcare, how government policy plays a role and ways that the problem can be addressed.

Ways to address the expanding healthcare staffing shortage

Healthcare systems tell AMGA they are competing with Home Depot and other retailers for front office staff.

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Radiology among the most burned out specialties, new AMA survey says

About 45% of radiologists have experienced such workplace exhaustion, which places the specialty fifth among medical professions polled. 

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Radiology provider Lumexa Imaging appoints chief growth officer

Keith Lynch is taking on the title after previously serving as senior VP of strategy and development at SCA Health, a prominent ambulatory surgery center operator.

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Tourists more likely to undergo unnecessary imaging in the ED

“From an operational perspective, these findings have implications for staffing and resource planning in emergency radiology departments serving high-tourism regions."