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.

Philips signs $16M long-term imaging partnership to bring big city tech to rural hospital

This continues a trend as the Amsterdam-based company looks to lend more stability and predictability to the acquisition of new diagnostic technology.

Falling US life expectancy driven by drug abuse, suicide and CVDs

Life expectancy in the U.S. is lagging far behind that of other developed nations, according to a review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association—a phenomenon driven by an increase in drug overdoses, suicides and organ system diseases like CVD.

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Imaging innovators recognized, awarded at RSNA 2019

Five radiology groups and departments were awarded trophies at RSNA 2019 in Chicago last week for combining creative thinking with coordinated teamwork to develop an original breakthrough in medical imaging.

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Audit finds thousands of imaging tests were delayed or improperly canceled at VA

That’s according to a bombshell new report from the VA Office of the Inspector General, released on Tuesday., Oct. 10. 

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Australian AI specialists raise nearly $20 million

Harrison.ai, a Sydney, Australia-based healthcare company focused on AI technologies, has raised $19.9 million (A$29 million) in funding.

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Man dies of MI 6 weeks after cardiologist dismissed his symptoms as anxiety

The widow of a 48-year-old man was awarded $6.3 million this week after her husband, who’d been cleared of CVD by his cardiologist six weeks before his death, suffered a fatal heart attack while jogging.

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FDA workshop to explore AI’s impact on imaging

AI’s impact on medical imaging continues to be one of the most significant trends of the last several years, and now the FDA has announced a public workshop focused on that very subject.

How one Canadian health center reduced inappropriate MRI knee exams

The team used a checklist based on American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria to dramatically reduce unnecessary knee MRI exams.