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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Decreasing patient recovery time for liver biopsies by 1 hour increases procedural capacity by 20%

Researchers from the department of radiology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, thought they could shorten their facility’s standard recovery time for outpatient parenchymal liver biopsies from three hours to two hours—so they put it to the test.

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ACR calls on providers, CMS to curb unnecessary lung cancer deaths

According to an ACR release, more than 220,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2018 and nearly 160,000 will die from the disease. That exceeds all combined deaths from breast, colon and prostate cancer.

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Quorum Health CEO to retire

Thomas Miller has led Quorum Health since it was spun off from Community Health Systems in 2016. Like other for-profit hospital operators, it has run into financial issues in recent years—it closed or divested of 10 hospitals since the spinoff and has targeted up to $215 million in additional sales of assets after reporting a net loss of $98.5 million in the first quarter of 2018.

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Intermountain Medical Center names Blair Kent as new administrator

Kent’s move to the 504-bed Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, comes after more than 25 years of experience within the health system.

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HCA eyeing purchase of Envision with private equity partner

Reuters reports HCA’s proposal would essentially reverse Envision’s 2016 merger with AmSurg. The rest of the $5.1 billion Envision would be taken over by KKR.

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Ruth Carlos named new JACR editor-in-chief

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has announced that Ruth C. Carlos, MD, MS, will be the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), officially beginning her term in January 2019.

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Women continue to be underrepresented in radiology workforce throughout US

As radiologists continue to embrace a more tech-savvy generation of medical students, adapt to life alongside artificial intelligence (AI) and churn out practice-changing studies, just one thing is missing, according to researchers in the Journal of the American College of Radiology: more women.

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Ruth Carlos named editor-in-chief of JACR

Ruth Carlos, MD, MS, will begin her new role in January 2019. She succeeds Bruce J. Hillman, MD, who founded the Journal of the American College of Radiology in 2004.