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.

Correlating Industry Trends With Imaging-center Value

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While consideration of the individual facts, circumstances, and local competitive position of each subject imaging center is integral to an accurate business-valuation analysis, a thorough understanding of the state of the imaging industry—particularly the acquisition environment—is crucial to performing an accurate and complete valuation.

Nine Steps to Saving the Profession of Radiology

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

On November 25, at the 2012 RSNA annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, three radiologists presented “Saving Our Profession: How Radiologists Can Thrive in the Era of Health Care Reform.” The suggestions offered by the presenters—Bruce Hillman, MD; Lawrence Muroff, MD; and Norman Beauchamp, MD—varied, but all centered on a common theme: that

Ritz-Carlton Radiology

Another RSNA meeting has come and gone. I started attending the country’s largest medical meeting in 2006, and while I’ve become much better at pacing myself and navigating McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, over the years, I’ve never lost the sense of awe that I feel in sessions and in the exhibit hall. Ours is a remarkable field populated by

A Website Started by Florida Providers Offers One Price-Transparency Solution

SaveOnMedical's early success adding radiology practices speaks to providers desire to offer price transparency for patients.

17 Senate Dems Back a Delay in Device Tax, Obama Says No

Advocates for the repeal of the 2.3% medical device tax got a small boost when 17 Senate Democrats asked to delay the tax.

AMBS to Certify Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is offering a new dual primary certificate in Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology (IR/DR).

High Radiation Imaging Procedures Increasing in Pediatric Imaging

High radiation scans are becoming more frequent in pediatric imaging, according to a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Ziffer Named CEO of Baptist Health Medical Group

Jack Ziffer has been named the first CEO of Baptist Health Medical Group in South Florida, which has more than 120 physicians.