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.

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Rising BP, cholesterol rates could cost millennials another $4.5K per year

An increase in the proportion of millennials with chronic health conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and depression could cost the U.S. economy in a big way, the Daily Mail reported Nov. 7.

CDC pinpoints Vitamin E acetate as vaping additive causing harm

The CDC has narrowed in on vitamin E acetate as a potential chemical of concern in an epidemic of vaping-related lung illnesses that have injured 2,051 people from nearly all states and have been linked to 39 deaths in 24 states.

Call to action for radiologists to sharpen their dementia caregiving skills: A six-step process

The silver tsunami of aging Americans will bring a corresponding wave of dementia diagnoses, one that radiology business leaders will need to be prepared for in the coming years.

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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