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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Google is collecting massive amounts of healthcare data

While Google has ventured into the healthcare field with various technologies and tools, it is also collecting vast amounts of healthcare data through these tools and through deals with healthcare stakeholders.

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How to improve workstation cleanliness among radiologists

Providing plenty of supplies and emphasizing the importance of workstation hygiene can lead to much cleaner reading rooms, according to a new case study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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UnitedHealthcare names new CEO

UnitedHealth Group, a large managed care company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, announced a slew of leadership changes at the end of June, including naming a new CEO to UnitedHealthcare, its major health insurance business.

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Nurse charged for allegedly stealing drugs from radiology department

A registered nurse in Wisconsin is facing up to 13 years in prison for allegedly stealing drugs from two hospitals. She told police she was using the drugs to cope with pain related to her fibromyalgia.

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One nonprofit hospital is aggressively pursuing the poor for medical debts

Methodist University Hospital, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is a nonprofit hospital operator with its own collections agency that ruthlessly pummels low-income patients over unpaid medical bills by taking them to court, according to a sort by ProPublica.

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Sanford, UnityPoint to merge in $11B deal

Sanford Health and UnityPoint Health have agreed to merge to become an $11 billion nonprofit health system, making it among the 15 largest in the nation.

Why more radiology, nuclear medicine journals should embrace open-access publishing

Open-access (OA) radiology and nuclear medicine journals receive at least one citation more frequently than those requiring a subscription, according to research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Those specialties, the study’s authors wrote, should work to be “more supportive” of OA publishing.

JNM’s immediacy index increased 25% in 2018

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM), the flagship academic journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), had an impact factor of 7.354 in 2018, according to the 2019 Journal Citation Report.