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.

ACR Financials Reveal Strong Position

Although operating revenue declined in 2013, the value of the total assets of the American College of Radiology (ACR) continues to climb

CBO Cuts Cost of SGR Fix by Nearly $23 Billion

New Federal spending figures have prompted the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reduce its estimate for the total cost of repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula

Researchers Estimate Overdiagnosis Rate for CT Lung Cancer Screening

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that 18.4% of the lung cancers detected with low-dose CT in the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial may have been indolent

Hologic Replaces CEO and Settles With Ichan

Jack W. Cumming, 68, who had been a part of the top management team of Hologic Inc, Bedford, Mass., for over a decade will be replaced as president and CEO by Stryker veteran Stephen MacMillan.

RSNA Trendwatch: Take a Long View of MU

In a Thursday morning open-mike/town hall session on the federal meaningful use program, Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD, offered a reality check for those incentive-happy practices that have successfully attested to Stage 1

RSNA Trendwatch: Consumer Technology Moving to Health Care

Gaming technologies applied to high speed graphics processing is just one example of how consumer technologies are now used to improve the look and function of advanced imaging systems

RSNA Trendwatch: Multi-Enterprise Imaging

This year's RSNA left no room for doubt: If you're just talking about image management within the radiology department, you might as well not be talking at all

RSNA Trendwatch: Social Media Gaining Ground

Elliot Fishman, MD, of Johns Hopkins, was just one of many at RSNA 2013 urging radiology as a profession to start acknowledging the power of social media — as well as the risks of abstaining from it