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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Startup aimed at addressing misdiagnoses in radiology raises $23.5M

Covera Health will use the funds to speed up research and development of tools to measure the impact of errors in imaging.

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Drug price inflation slows under investor strategy

Drug prices are still rising in 2020, but the rate of inflation appears to be slowing down. For investors, however, that might be good news, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Radiologists rank low among physicians with happiest marriages

The finding was part of a wide-ranging survey of doctors’ after-work habits across the U.S., gauging everything from automobile preference to pot and alcohol use. 

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Zipnosis, GYANT partner on new patient engagement solution for health systems

Zipnosis, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based healthcare technology company, has kicked off a new partnership with GYANT, a San Francisco-based company focused on improving physician-patient communication with AI.

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Cancer death rates drop to lowest rate since the '90s

Cancer death rates achieved their largest one-year drop between 2016 and 2017, according to the latest data from the American Cancer Society, which published the findings in their journal.

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Could 2020 be the year of women in cardiology?

A number of female cardiologists are leading, or preparing to lead, top cardiology organizations this year. Could 2020 mean a paradigm shift for the field?

Nurse leader calls for ‘civility’ in radiology: 4 steps to get there

A medical imaging nurse manager offers care teams four easy steps to begin addressing bullying in the workplace.

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Hospital charges are driving higher payments

Hospital charges are on their way up, driving up private payments that are already significantly higher than public payments, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. However, the widening gap between private and public payments appears to be slowing down.