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.

Rising prices will drive healthcare spending near 20% of US GDP by 2025

The U.S. will soon spend close to 20 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health, according to The Wall Street Journal, up from the current level of about 18 percent. In December 2017, the healthcare industry became the nation’s largest employment sector. 

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Outside the reading room: Field trips expose medical students to patient-centered radiology

Integrating structured field trips to the imaging department during a four-week radiology clerkship could help expose medical students to the patient-centered, team-based aspects of the specialty, according to a review published this July in Academic Radiology.

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Lung cancer deaths among women expected to rise 40% by 2030—breast cancer deaths to drop

Lung cancer mortality rates among women around the world could increase by 40 percent by 2030, according to a new study published in Cancer Research. Breast cancer mortality rates, meanwhile, are expected to decrease by 9 percent.

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Generalists remain ‘extremely relevant' in radiology despite perceived subspecialization

Radiology has undergone large-scale subspecialization, causing some experts to question how the shift has impacted patient access to both basic and invasive procedures.

Tenaya Therapeutics Appoints Faraz Ali as Chief Executive Officer

Tenaya Therapeutics, a preclinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovery and development of novel therapies for heart failure, announced the appointment of Faraz Ali as Chief Executive Officer.

AI can't match a physician's 'gut instinct' when examining a patient

New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests a physician's intuition—or, in other words, gut feeling—about a patient’s condition significantly influences the amount of diagnostic imaging, which is well above the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Karleen Oberton named Hologic’s new CFO

Hologic announced this week that the company’s chief accounting officer, Karleen Oberton, has been promoted to chief financial officer (CFO). She replaces Bob McMahon, who is leaving Hologic to work as the CFO for Agilent.

Health insurance marketplace enrollment drops in 1st quarter of 2018

The individual health insurance marketplace experienced a 12 percent decline in enrollment during the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same time period last year.