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.

Imaging manufacturer Guerbet faces financial challenges following recent FDA warning
Regulators recently scolded the France-based pharmaceutical firm for safety issues that occurred at its plant in Raleigh, North Carolina, which produces imaging contrast agents.
Wisconsin passes legislation requiring insurers to cover supplemental breast imaging
Dubbed "Gail's Law" after a breast cancer care advocate, the passage follows years of advocacy from radiologists and patients.
Fraudster faces 3 years in prison for role in $14M imaging-related scheme
Sophia Shaklian, 38, of Los Angeles, and accomplices bilked Medicare of millions by submitting false claims for diagnostic imaging and hospice care that was unnecessary or never administered.
FDA clears portable photon-counting CT scanner
The system is designed for point-of-care settings such as outpatient offices, sports medicine practices and urgent care clinics.
Both radiologists and AI struggle to identify 'deepfake' X-rays
Experts are cautioning that these falsified images could have serious implications for radiologists in the future.

Patients question radiology provider's billing practices after receiving notices from collections

Englewood, Colorado-based Radiology Imaging Associates says it has identified a software error likely responsible for the issue and is working to make corrections.

Mayo Clinic, Kaiser investing $100M in acute-care-at-home model that includes imaging: ‘Unprecedented’

Boston-based Medically Home offers imaging via portable scanners, while patients requiring MRI or CT are transported to a facility and then brought back to their residence

Scientists develop new imaging measure to improve knee osteoarthritis staging

Boston University utilized artificial intelligence and thousands of knee MRI scans to help develop the metric, dubbed “subchondral bone length.”

Biden administration reverses Trump-era healthcare discrimination rule

The Department of Health and Human Services has overturned a Trump-era rule that would have allowed healthcare providers to discriminate against patients based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Boston-based tech company raises $8M to develop AI-powered CVD software

The company also announced that two specialists with more than 25 years of industry experience have joined its leadership team.

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Widespread variation in pediatric radiology delivery underlines ‘pressing need’ to ensure comparable quality

While attending rads were involved in initial reports 100% of the time during the day, the number dropped to 69% on weekends and 33% overnight, according to a new survey.

90% of radiology residents rely on two online resources for help during their on-call shifts

Physicians surveyed trainees across three large metropolitan residency programs for their findings, shared in Clinical Imaging.

Nanox stock plummets after startup announces another delay in novel imaging system rollout

Chairman and CEO Ran Poliakine said the setback stems from a third-party supplier of a key ceramic tube in its Nanox.ARC technology.

Management

Imaging manufacturer Guerbet faces financial challenges following recent FDA warning

Wisconsin passes legislation requiring insurers to cover supplemental breast imaging

Fraudster faces 3 years in prison for role in $14M imaging-related scheme

FDA clears portable photon-counting CT scanner

Both radiologists and AI struggle to identify 'deepfake' X-rays