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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Radiologist prevails in court battle over delayed ovarian cancer diagnosis

Louis McFeeley had originally alleged that one clinician’s failure to pinpoint lesions in his wife's ovaries started a chain of events leading to her eventual death. 

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Cardiology AI specialists raise $15M

Cardiologs, a cardiology diagnostics company with offices in Paris and Boston, has raised $15 million in Series A funding.

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How a growing private practice is looking to become the ‘Amazon of radiology’

Determined to remain independent, Midstate Radiology Associates of Meriden, Connecticut, grew from 11 radiologists to more than 40 in less than five years. How did they pull it off—and what can like-minded groups do to follow suit? 

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Sky-high drug prices could hurt Republicans in 2020

Drug prices are still rising, with manufacturers hiking up prices at the start of 2020. And the “reluctance” from the Republican party to challenge those rising prices could become a huge liability for the upcoming 2020 election, according to The Hill.

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Justice Department recovers $3B in false claims

The Department of Justice has recouped more than $3 billion in 2019 from settlements and judgements from false claims and fraud. Of these cases, $2.6 billion came from the healthcare industry.

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Radiologists must fight ‘disturbing’ efforts to limit positive oral contrast use in CT

The University of Wisconsin’s Perry Pickhardt, MD, made his pitch in a new analysis, published Jan. 8 in the American Journal of Roentgenology

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Nursing is the most trusted profession in the US

Americans continued to rank nurses highest for honesty and ethics among a list of professions for the 18th year in a row in 2019, according to a recent Gallup poll.

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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.