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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Wilkie confirmed by senate as next VA Secretary

Robert Wilkie received Senate confirmation as the new Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday, July 23, by an 86-9 vote.

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Cancer center launches mobile lung screening program for underserved areas of West Virginia

The WVU Cancer Institute is looking to provide low-dose CT lung cancer screenings for 42 West Virginia counties at no cost with a mobile imaging bus, WV News reported this week.

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AHRA 2018: Speakers at opening ceremony focus on leadership, teamwork, heroism

On Monday, July 23, AHRA President Angelic Bush, MSRS, CRA, RT, kicked off the opening ceremony of the AHRA 2018 Annual Meeting in Orlando with a few words of encouragement about the association’s humble beginnings and its lasting legacy.

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Apollo Global Management acquires Tennessee-based LifePoint in $5.6B deal

RCCH Healthcare Partners (RCCH), owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, announced a merger with Tennessee-based LifePoint Health in a transaction worth approximately $5.6 billion.

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40% of breast cancer patients struggle to afford treatment

Nearly 40 percent of women find their breast cancer treatment unaffordable, according to a large-scale study published in Cancer this month—but radiation oncologists are better than some at communicating financial difficulties to their patients.

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NIH releases public dataset of 32K annotated CTs

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Clinical Center released a large-scale database of 32,000 annotated CT images last week in an effort to improve the detection accuracy of lesions, the NIH announced in a statement.

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Australian hospital fails training accreditation after 25-year run with ‘A’ rating

An Australian hospital’s radiology department recently failed its college training accreditation after a 25-year-long run with an “A” rating, ABC News reported this week.

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What Gen Z could bring to radiology that millennials haven’t

As the older members of Generation Z, now in their late teens and 20s, are starting to filter into universities, grad schools and medical programs across the country, the demographic is bringing an entirely new set of assets and challenges with it, according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American College Radiology this week.