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.

CDC director, chief medical officer ousted as RFK shakes up agency
CDC Director Susan Monarez, PhD, was less than a month into her role, having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30. Her lawyers said the staffing shakeup was a result of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “weaponizing public health for political gain.”
Radiology practice sells imaging center to hospital partner while remaining independent
Fayetteville-based Valley Regional Imaging is unloading its facility to Cape Fear Valley Health, a hospital based in the same Sandhills-region community of southeastern North Carolina.
Hospital system’s physician group adds imaging services by acquiring 40-year-old radiology practice
Seton Imaging and its two locations are now part of Trinity Medical WNY, a multispecialty group owned by physicians but controlled by Catholic Health.
Under-reimbursement keeping radiologists from using key imaging modality, docs warn CMS
Radiologists and other physicians recently wrote to Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, asking for changes related to contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
FDA details new risk with Johnson & Johnson heart pump controllers after patient’s death
This latest alert was put in place after Johnson & Johnson MedTech learned that some of its Automated Impella Controllers were built to the wrong specifications, impacting their ability to function. Affected devices should not be used going forward.

Medality CEO and co-founder Daniel Arnold

Private equity-backed digital education platform TrueLearn acquires radiology vendor Medality

Medality (formerly MRI Online) boasts over 150 clients across 100 countries including private practices, academic programs and hospital radiology departments.

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Private-equity radiology group owner Grovecourt Capital acquires MRI solutions provider IMRIS Imaging

Founded in 2005, the vendor designs, manufactures and services its proprietary intraoperative MRI suite used on over 70,000 patients.

Data trove of 1.6M patient records discovered online

A cybersecurity researcher made the discovery. The database, in the care of a clinical trials company, was not password protected or encrypted.

Commercially insured women less likely to be referred for interventional procedures

“These findings raise the question of whether insurance reimbursement impacts referral patterns for other conditions and specialties, and the extent to which it may outweigh evidence-based care decisions."

The flooded Baxter North Cove IV bag plant in North Carolina with its flags at half mast for the more than 250 people killed by Hurricane Helene, including at least one Baxter employee. Baxter photo

Baxter’s Asheville site now fully operational after damage from Helene

Hurricane Helene devastated the North Carolina manufacturing site, causing a nationwide shortage of IV solutions.

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Consumer mistrust, humanoid robots, vendor wars, more

Healthcare consumers are wary of healthcare systems packing AI.

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4 factors driving diagnostic radiology profession’s ‘popularity surge’

The specialty has seen a “notable rise” in applications among aspiring radiology residents and a corresponding uptick in competitiveness, experts write in Academic Radiology.

ACR hopes new quality metric could boost lung cancer screening rates to 70%

The National Committee for Quality Assurance is taking public comment on the health plan quality metric until March 13.

Management

CDC director, chief medical officer ousted as RFK shakes up agency

Radiology practice sells imaging center to hospital partner while remaining independent

Hospital system’s physician group adds imaging services by acquiring 40-year-old radiology practice

Under-reimbursement keeping radiologists from using key imaging modality, docs warn CMS

FDA details new risk with Johnson & Johnson heart pump controllers after patient’s death