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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Zeroing out the individual mandate could suppress elective surgeries

In anticipation of the 2020 ending of the individual mandate penalizing Americans who don’t have health insurance, Harvard researchers have drawn from Massachusetts’s state-level reform experience to show a falloff in elective surgery is likely.

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MITA cheers federal breast density reporting requirement

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) has issued a statement in support of the recently passed federal requirement that all mammography providers must include information about breast density in reports sent to patients and their physicians.

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AI not a substitute for patient-physician relationship

AI continues to make strides in medicine, with an expected market size in excess of $13 billion by 2025. But physicians and medical school deans at the Imagine Solutions Conference in Naples, Florida, stressed there is no substitute for the patient-physician relationship. 

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CMS: All Children’s Hospital failures were widespread

A CMS report found the problems at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, were more extensive than the pediatric heart unit, The Tampa Bay Times reported.

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Is there a learning curve associated with interpreting DBT exams?

Exploring the performance of more than 100 radiologists, researchers found “no evidence of a learning curve” for clinically interpreting digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) examinations.

Crossover Health Acquires Sherpaa Health Virtual Primary Care Platform

Crossover Health, a leading provider of comprehensive health services for self-insured employers, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive rights to the technology platform developed by Sherpaa Health, the pioneer of virtual primary care.

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AI startup focused on breast cancer screening raises $6M

Niramai Health Analytix, an India-based AI startup, announced that it has closed a $6 million Series A round of funding.

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GE Healthcare IPO likely on hold following $21.4B deal with Danaher

General Electric (GE) may be halting its plan for an initial public offering (IPO) of its healthcare sector in 2019, GE Chairman and CEO Larry Culp told CNBC on Feb. 25. The announcement came after the company made a deal to sell its biopharma business to Danaher for $21.4 billion.