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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Dose-tracking software improves quality of interventional procedures

Introducing a dose-monitoring software to procedures in interventional and neuro-interventional radiology could be useful for tracking patient radiation thresholds and improving procedural performance, Brandon C. Perry, MD, and colleagues at the University of Washington have reported in Academic Radiology. 

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Adam Myers to spearhead Cleveland Clinic’s population health initiative

Adam Myers, MD, MHCM, FACHE, has joined the Cleveland Clinic as the director of community care and the chief of population health. He will lead Cleveland Clinic's new approach to managing care that will “proactively address the health needs of populations.”

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MITA holds congressional briefing urging stronger medical device servicing, regulations

A congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., was held by a panel of representatives from the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) to discuss how medical device providers are regulated and how standards can be better aligned to ensure patient safety.

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What does the rise of radiology fellowships mean for general radiologists?

Radiology fellowships are on the rise, meaning a greater demand for niche-trained imagers and a lesser demand for generalists—but the importance of general radiologists shouldn’t be underestimated, one group of researchers argue in this month’s Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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MITA holds briefing session for Congress to discuss medical device servicing regulation

Representatives from the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) briefed members of Congress on June 15 about the regulation of medical device servicers and how the current structure of such regulation can result in improperly serviced equipment being used by healthcare providers.

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Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference headed to Baltimore in November

The annual Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference, now in its fifth year, is scheduled for Nov. 15-16 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Legislators, advocates look to combat sharp increase in price of insulin

Diabetes advocates and legislators on both sides of the aisle are calling for more transparency and government oversight in the insulin market because of skyrocketing costs.

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Variations in start dates for chemotherapy, radiotherapy increase risk of death for NSCLC patients

Concurrent chemoradiation therapy is the standard of care for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but starting the dual treatments more than three days apart from each other can result in poorer overall survival and an 8 percent increased risk of death, according to research published in Clinical Lung Cancer this summer.