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 tau imaging agent granted FDA's Fast Track designation

Life Molecular Imaging's new agent has demonstrated promising brain uptake, fast wash-out in non-target regions and excellent reproducibility. 

Eiman Jahangir, MD, a cardiologist with Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), successfully traveled to space and back Thursday, Aug. 29, on a Blue Origin rocket. The entire flight lasted approximately nine minutes. Blue Origin is the aerospace company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in 2000.

Cardiologist blasts into space on Jeff Bezos-funded Blue Origin rocket

The nine-minute flight was a complete success. Prior Blue Origin space tourism missions have included everyone from Bezos himself to Star Trek actor William Shatner.

Renata Medical, a California-based healthcare technology company, has gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a new stent specifically designed for pediatric patients with congenital heart defects. The Minima Growth Stent was built to treat newborns, infants and young children, and then it continues to expand as the patient ages

FDA approves new expanding stent for young children

The new interventional device from Renata Medical is designed to expand as young patients age, providing long-term relief. 

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Physician practice and clinic bankruptcy filings have surged 60% year-over-year in 2024

The healthcare sector continues to face “financial headwinds,” with several “distress drivers” pushing providers toward Chapter 11. 

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70% of radiologists and other docs surveyed say culture is as important as money

Commitment to work-life balance, physician autonomy, positive atmosphere and management that treats staff well were listed as key elements of a healthy workplace. 

Practice change bolsters patient knowledge about interventional radiology procedures

Understanding about the profession remains low among patients and PCPs, with the latter essential to fueling procedure volumes, experts noted. 

Artificial intelligence AI

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy: Mayo Clinic has more than 200 algorithms under development.

How can the world’s AI stakeholders work together toward the common goal of international scientific agreement on AI’s risks?

International experts formulate scientific approach to AI risk management

A lot of people from a lot of organizations in a lot of countries are working to coordinate oversight of AI’s risks. A budding project seeks to bring many of these minds together to advance the worthy goal of building global consensus with scientific rigor.