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.

Healthcare Reform Will Not Mean Less Imaging, Says Regents Health

Whatever form the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) may take—and we are, of course, in an election year—a confluence of factors conspires to keep radiologists in demand for the foreseeable future, says Brian Baker, President of the Franklin, TN-based Regents Health Resources.

FDA Issues Guidance Document on Pediatric Imaging

Today the FDA released for public comment a guidance document on pediatric imaging that should help x-ray manufacturers develop devices better suited to safely imaging child patients.

Unecessary Imaging Related to Cost? Liability? Lack of Information?

Instances in which imaging is unnecessarily performed may be related to a gap in adherence to report recommendations, says new research from Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Medical Center, NJ Radiology Group Train Chinese Doctors in Interventional Techniques

CentraState Medical Center just finished a week-long training program for physicians from China on comprehensive imaging and interventional techniques for diagnosing breast cancer.

Most Stroke Victims Do Not Get Diagnostic Imaging Fast Enough

Fewer than half of all stroke patients undergo brain imaging within the AHA-recommended, 25-minute window after arriving at the ER, according to a new study in the journal Stroke.

ACR, HIMSS Comment on MU2 Proposed Rule Changes

The public-comment period for MU2 entered full swing this week, as both ACR and HIMSS weighed in on proposed rule changes to the federal EHR Incentive Program.

Ontario Radiologists Facing Payment Cuts Reports National Post

Canadian radiologists in the Province of Ontario may face steep payment cuts, according to an article from the National Post.

Unemployment Directly Responsible for Medicaid Enrollment, Says Kaiser

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation demonstrates distressing evidence that employment losses—and the subsequent loss of healthcare benefits tied to those jobs—has directly related in a nearly 20 percent increase in the number of Medicaid subscribers.