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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New imaging method targets cancer-associated fibroblasts

Researchers have developed a new nuclear medicine imaging method that works by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), sharing their findings in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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UK's NHS spent $150M for radiology outsourcing in 2017

A new radiologist workforce report issued by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) for 2017 noted that the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) spent $150 million (£116 million) to outsource patient scans in response to the shortage of radiologists.

UK's NHS spent $150M outsourcing imaging scans to manage radiologist shortage

Last year, the NHS spent $150 million outsourcing patient scans to cope with the radiologist shortage, according to a 2017 clinical radiology U.K. workforce census report released Wednesday, Sept. 5, by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).

Comcast exec named COO of Amazon healthcare joint venture

The healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has named Jack Stoddard as its new COO, according to CNBC.

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Quality over quantity: 8 ways radiology practices can provide value-based care

Radiology’s shift from volume to value began a number of years ago. However, according to a new analysis published in Radiology, it can be challenging for imaging leaders to know how to successfully make that transition within their own practices.

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8 keys for radiology to embrace the value-based era

It’s a great time to be a radiologist. Imaging technology is advancing, jobs are plentiful and wages are healthy, wrote a pair of radiologists in a Sept. 4 Radiology commentary. At the same time, costs are rapidly increasing.

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15 men who worked near Ground Zero after 9/11 diagnosed with breast cancer

According to a new report in the New York Post, at least 15 men who were in or around New York’s Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Obamacare challenge heads into oral arguments

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is facing one of its biggest challenges to date as arguments began Wednesday, Sept. 5, in a live-or-die lawsuit that could potentially nullify the healthcare law.