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.

Patient advocacy groups urge Congress to create pathway for CMS to cover AI in radiology

The FDA has OK'd nearly 900 AI-enabled medical devices, but CMS has only assigned payment for about 10 of them. 

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Almost 80% of knowledge workers bring their own GenAI to work

Around the world, 3 of 4 workers who routinely handle information are now using generative AI on the job. And almost half of them are new to the technology, having begun using it only over the past half-year.

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Siemens Healthineers investing $314M to build new MRI manufacturing facility

This is the first major production site for the company's DryCool technology, which drastically reduces the amount of helium required for magnetic resonance imaging. 

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Kaiser Permanente unloading $3.5B in private equity stakes

Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that Kaiser Permanente is working with Jefferies Financial Group to find secondary buyers.

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Radiographers are apprehensive about integrating AI into their workflow

Some believe it could make their jobs easier, while others perceive AI as a threat to their employment, new survey data suggest.

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Ascension confirms ransomware caused service shutdowns, ambulance diversions

Emergency services are back up and running, but many patients will need to reschedule tests and treatments while systems at Ascension remain partially offline.

lex Sandhu, MD, MS, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, Stanford University, and cardiologist at the Palo Alto VA. He spoke in the business of cardiology sessions at ACC 2024 and explained how Medicare reimbursements will be moving toward a value based payment model by 2030. #ACC #ACC24 #ACC2024 #CMS #reimbersements #Medicare

How the shift to value-based reimbursements could transform cardiology

"I think we really need our cardiologist community to understand the changes that are happening with value-based payment," one expert tells Cardiovascular Business. 

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RadNet acquires 9 imaging centers through 2 tuck-in transactions totaling $14M

The deals were with Antelope Valley Imaging and Grossman Imaging Centers, both located near RadNet's home base in California.