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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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.

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George H.W. Bush’s cardiologist killed in shooting

Former President George H.W. Bush’s cardiologist was killed on July 20 in an apparent bicycle drive-by shooting near the Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston.

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Chicago radiologist wins SPR award for research paper on thyroid cancer in teens

A Chicago radiologist and her research team have won the Society For Pediatric Radiology’s Walter E. Berdon Award for their paper about thyroid cancer in teens, Loyola University announced this week.

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Lightly embalmed cadavers a valuable teaching tool for interventional radiology

Lightly embalmed cadavers can help medical students and radiology residents simulate common ultrasound-guided interventional radiology (IR) procedures, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology.