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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AHA condemns Trump administration’s latest attack on ACA

The American Heart Association noted that the Affordable Care Act has provided “invaluable patient protections for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions.”

Jailed radiologist charged with rape, battery cites COVID-19 for release request

The former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center radiologist has been in jail for the past five months on 13 counts, the Boston Herald reported.

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CMS to grant hardship relief for radiologists in the 2020 Merit-Based Incentive Program

Providers who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic can now submit an Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Application outlining their challenges. 

AI calibrates drug advertising for stronger sales, better outcomes

A healthcare AI startup has introduced software that will let drugmakers market their wares directly to individual consumers without uncovering anyone’s actual identity.

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CDC expands list of populations at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 illness

Its changes include removing the long-established guidance that individuals over age 65 are at a greater danger of outcomes such as hospitalization, ICU admission or death. 

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6 steps toward reducing patient no-shows at your radiology practice

Wise practice leaders must find ways to anticipate and mitigate these hindrances to keep their calendars fully booked, experts wrote recently in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. 

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USPSTF reaffirms recommendation for hypertension screening among adults

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has reaffirmed its recommendation that all adults undergo hypertension screening, calling it “a major contributing risk factor to heart failure, heart attack, stroke and chronic kidney disease.”

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Former radiologic technologist named speaker of the Pennsylvania House

It took 45-year-old Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster County, just 13 years to ascend from x-ray tech to the most powerful position in the Keystone State’s General Assembly.