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.

Envision Healthcare exits imaging, with its 400 radiologists joining Rad Partners
The nation’s largest radiology practice—now with 4,000 physicians—also has inked a “transition agreement," offering Envision's 95 imaging clients the option to continue with RP.
Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more
Bill Gates wasn’t just wrong to suggest AI will make physicians unnecessary. He was reckless.
Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’
Healthcare may finally have struck a healthy balance between AI hype and AI reality, according to a report from impartial observers who are also, indirectly at least, healthcare AI stakeholders.
Sen. Warren fears $10B private equity buyout of Walgreens will create ‘pharmacy deserts’
The Massachusetts senator is asking buyer Sycamore Partners for certain assurances, including that it won’t saddle the struggling pharmacy chain with even more debt and indiscriminately close retail locations.
Supreme Court sides with HHS in hospital payment dispute
In a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court affirmed the formula used by the federal government to calculate Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments is legal and consistent with the law passed by Congress.

Researchers receive $3.6M grant to develop less painful cancer detection tool

University of Arizona Health Sciences scientists are developing a new 3D breast-specific cancer detection method that would do away with the often-painful compression methods used during mammograms.

4 opportunities for radiologists to improve shared decision-making

Shared-decision making is central to patient-centered care. And according to a recent literature review, radiologists can play a key role in the process.

Radiologist faulted for missed diagnosis, must apologize and undergo training

The New Zealand government is faulting a local radiologist who failed to recognize one 67-year-old patient’s bowel cancer in CT scans, which eventually spread to his lungs and liver.

ACR publishes updates to appropriateness criteria

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has added four new topics and 15 revised topics to the ACR Appropriateness Criteria.

Almost half of healthcare consumers ready to embrace medical AI

Some 46% of Americans are open to the idea of their physicians using AI to help make diagnoses.

25% of healthcare spending is waste

A whopping 25% of spending in the U.S. healthcare system is waste, between $760 billion and $935 billion, according to a Humana-led study in JAMA.

Epica International’s mobile imaging platform gains FDA approval

Epica International, a San Clemente, California-based medical imaging technology company, has received FDA clearance for its multi-modality mobile imaging platform.

Bernie Sanders had a heart attack, campaign reveals

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a presidential hopeful with the Democratic party, experienced a heart attack last week, his campaign revealed after reports confirmed Sanders underwent a stent placement procedure.

Management

Envision Healthcare exits imaging, with its 400 radiologists joining Rad Partners

Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more

Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’

Sen. Warren fears $10B private equity buyout of Walgreens will create ‘pharmacy deserts’

Supreme Court sides with HHS in hospital payment dispute