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.

Medical journal bucks RFK, refuses to retract Danish vaccine study

A study analyzing data on 1.2 million children over two decades found no evidence that aluminum ingredients in vaccines cause autism or autoimmune disorders. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the research “deceitful propaganda.”

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Radiology staffing shortages force health system to temporarily shutter imaging centers

Anderson Healthcare in Maryville, Illinois, said it's short on techs and rads and facing weeklong delays in report turnaround times. 

Radiologists say bill to grant pharmacists more authority could have ‘dangerous long-term consequences’

Bipartisan senators recently reintroduced the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act, which could help fill care gaps in rural geographies. 

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RadNet touts successful efforts to boost advanced imaging interest, with PET/CT volumes up 16%

Investments in MRI software, expanded CT offerings on both coasts, and new PET products have all helped increase advanced imaging to about 27.5% of RadNet's procedural volumes. 

Artists rendering of the Artemis I mission Orion space capsule with a cut away showing the two radiation detecting human phantoms. NASA/Lockheed Martin/DLR image

Google, NASA working to deploy AI medical assistant on space missions

A new natural language processing tool from Google is being trained on spaceflight scenarios to aid medical personnel on missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

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Alabama medical marijuana lawsuit dismissed due to lack of standing

A group of plaintiffs tried to use the courts to force the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission to develop a patient database needed for doctors to begin issuing prescriptions. But a judge ruled the group lacked standing, as such litigation typically requires backing from the state attorney general. Medical cannabis became legal in the state back in September 2022. 

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FDA confirms end to IV saline shortage caused by Hurricane Helene

Nearly 11 months after the hurricane flooded a Baxter manufacturing facility near Asheville, North Carolina, the resulting nationwide shortage of saline solution bags is officially over.

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Texas cardiologist to pay $1.2M for allegedly prescribing opioids to himself

The interventional cardiologist was accused of prescribing a variety of drugs to his family and friends, but then picking them up himself for his own personal use. This settlement officially resolves those allegations.