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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Q&A: Stella Kang on the important connection between mammography and other preventive health services

Stella Kang, MD, MSc, was the lead author of a study that determined women who undergo breast cancer screening with mammography are much more likely to utilize other preventive services than unscreened women. She spoke to Radiology Business about the importance of that study and more.

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Gawande looks to remove waste as he gears up to head healthcare initiative

After his appointment as CEO of the new Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture, Atul Gawande, MD, stated the undertaking will look to target wasteful spending, while providing better outcomes and satisfaction and removing “some of the middlemen" from the system.

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12.5% of NSCLC patients in Canada need palliative radiotherapy, don't receive it

More than half of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in Ontario, Canada, are in need of palliative radiotherapy, according to data published in Radiotherapy & Oncology—but many are never treated.

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Satoshi Minoshima elected SNMMI president during annual meeting

Satoshi Minoshima, MD, PhD, officially assumed office as 2018-2019 president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) at the SNMMI 2018 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

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How radiology program directors use real-time recruitment data to cut costs, predict residency match outcomes

Real-time and historical recruitment data published ahead of resident match season can help radiology program directors limit their application and recruitment costs, but the same statistics are largely ignored by medical students themselves, a report published in Academic Radiology this month suggests.

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Kaiser: 10M US citizen minors with undocumented parents may face challenges accessing healthcare

While debates about immigration—and the controversial approach to separating families at the southwestern border of the U.S.—dominate the news, advocates warn that children may be at risk for losing healthcare coverage through Medicaid, according to a recent report from Kaiser Health News.

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Online feedback tool reduces deterioration of psychological treatment by 74%

An online feedback tool that allows therapists to monitoring patients with depression has reduced the probability of deterioration during psychological treatment by 74 percent, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

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Rhode Island Supreme Court upholds sentencing in radiologist’s 1999 murder

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld the 60-year prison sentence of the man who murdered radiologist Alfred C. Moon, from Lincoln, Rhode Island, back in 1999.