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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Advocacy groups, healthcare organizations push for Congress to pass virtual colonoscopy bill

Patient advocacy groups and healthcare organizations, including the American College of Radiology (ACR), are urging Congress to pass HR 1969, the CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act.

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Trump postpones healthcare debate until after 2020

In a series of late-night tweets published April 1, President Trump suggested Republicans’ proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act will be put to a vote after the 2020 election, edging healthcare out of the spotlight just a week after his administration backed a federal judge’s ruling to invalidate the whole law.

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Older women benefit from breast cancer screening with DBT

Breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) provides significant value to older women, according to a new study published in Radiology.

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Updated ACR Appropriateness Criteria includes 2 new topics

The American College of Radiology (ACR) published its latest updated Appropriateness Criteria to help radiologists improve care across 12 topic areas.

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Federal judge rejects expansion of association health plans

A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to expand access to association health plans March 29, throwing small businesses that rely on those plans into a state of uncertainty, the Washington Post reported.

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Update to ACR Appropriateness Criteria released to public

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has released an update to its ACR Appropriateness Criteria.

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Female Ob/Gyns paid $67K less than male colleagues

Women physicians who work in reproductive health for women earn an average $67,000 less per year than men working in the same field. The pay gap cuts across subspecialties within it, such as reproductive endocrinology, and it holds even after adjusting for years of experience, hours worked and other variables.

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Combined method improves trainee accuracy, confidence with fMRI

Educating trainees on fMRI interpretation may be more effective using combined task activation display (CTAD) rather than displaying a single task at a time, reported researchers of recent study published in Clinical Imaging.