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.

Radiology Partners’ AI business receives Breakthrough Device designation from FDA
The country’s largest imaging group announced the news March 5, with the decision applying to its Cognita Chest X-ray tool across multiple clinical indications.
FDA clears AI triage tool that detects acute infarcts on noncontrast CT scans
Unlike many stroke detection applications on the market, this model covers six vascular territories and mechanisms of infarct.
FTC seeks more time to settle insulin pricing lawsuit with remaining PBM defendants
The request to the court comes a month after the agency settled with Express Scripts, under the condition the company change its wholesale buying practices, pass on manufacturer rebates and support TrumpRx.gov. Now it's up to CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx to make deals of their own.
Black surgery technician reassigned over race settles discrimination lawsuit out of court
Clestina Lamai, the surgical technician, claimed in a lawsuit that Iowa Methodist Medical Center removed her from surgery at the request of a racist patient. The case was settled as a jury was set to deliver its verdict, local media reports.
Blood filtration company fined $5.7M, executive charged, for covering up patient deaths
The U.S. Department of Justice said ExThera cooperated with the investigation into a failure to file adverse event notices with the Food and Drug Administration after two cancer patients who used its blood filtration systems in Antigua died shortly after returning home. The California-based company’s former chief regulatory officer has agreed to plead guilty and could serve prison time.

Radiologists have helped significantly decrease patients’ radiation dosages over the past decade, new report finds

During the decade that ended in 2016, interventional and diagnostic medical radiation dose use has plummeted 15% to 20%, the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reported on Nov. 18.

Q&A: Bill Lacy on Fujifilm’s new AI-enabled enterprise PACS

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. will be unveiling Synapse® 7X, a server-side viewer platform that extends across enterprise imaging areas, at RSNA 2019 in Chicago.

Long-Standing Customer-Vendor Partnership Brings Next-Generation PACS Technology to Market

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Vendor relationships can sometimes be mundane and ordinary, the kind that involve minimum communication and a lack of understanding of the visions and goals of each organization.

Drugmakers could still profit with a $1T loss

Drugmakers are the most profitable industry in the world and would be able to remain profitable after experiencing a $1 trillion loss, according to a report from West Health Policy Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Trump reverses planned ban of flavored e-cigarettes

The Trump administration is walking back on its plan to ban flavored e-cigarettes amidst an epidemic of lung illnesses and deaths related to vaping.

Heeding attendee requests, RSNA plans to shorten future versions of its annual meeting

Starting with the 2021 iteration, RSNA plans to discontinue any educational programming on the final Friday of the agenda, instead concluding at the end of the day Thursday.

Google canceled release of 100K images after NIH intervention

Just two days before Google was set to release an expansive set of human chest X-ray images, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) called the tech giant to call it off over privacy concerns, the Washington Post reported. Personal information about the patients in the images were still contained in some of the files and could be used to identify patients, NIH told Google.

CMS ‘throwing open the shutters’ to require upfront pricing on radiology services

This slew of changes—aimed at providing more price transparency to consumers—would take effect on Jan. 1, 2021.

Management

Radiology Partners’ AI business receives Breakthrough Device designation from FDA

FDA clears AI triage tool that detects acute infarcts on noncontrast CT scans

FTC seeks more time to settle insulin pricing lawsuit with remaining PBM defendants

Black surgery technician reassigned over race settles discrimination lawsuit out of court

Blood filtration company fined $5.7M, executive charged, for covering up patient deaths