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.

American College of Cardiology (ACC) President Christopher Kramer, MD, FACC, spoke at a hearing of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies March 9 to urge lawmakers to allocate full funding for the Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Research, and Training in Schools (HEARTS) Act (H.R.6829). It was signed into law in the closing weeks of the Biden administration. #ACC

ACC testifies in Washington to get funding for the HEARTS Act amid big cuts to healthcare

ACC President Christopher Kramer, MD, testified before a Congressional subcommittee to ask for federal funding to support a new law aimed at reducing sudden cardiac arrest deaths, and to support NIH research.

Body found in New Orleans believed to be missing radiologist

Paul Rodrigue, MD, went missing last week and was last seen on Saturday, March 29, in the Mid-City area.

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Radiology practice managers speak out against Trump administration tariffs

UPDATED: Amid criticism from the business community, the White House on Wednesday scaled back some of its proposal. 

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Moral distress is ‘pervasive’ in radiology, with 4 primary causes

Common drivers include performing an unsafe number of studies, lack of administrative support and pressure to conduct unnecessary imaging.    
 

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Female radiologists scoring promotions at higher rate than male colleagues

Imaging experts speculated that the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors may be helping to improve gender disparities across the profession. 

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Diagnostic imaging chain diversifies, adding urology group and its 16 locations

Affidea is one of the largest radiology providers in Europe, operating a network of 391 centers spanning 15 countries and handling 20 million scans annually. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Silent AI threats, overeager clinical AI, trustworthy AI therapists, more

Some AI decision-support models have a proclivity for recommending aggressive care pathways. And doing so on the basis of patient demographics, not medical necessity.

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Nurses developing mysterious brain tumors

While the tumors are all benign, five nurses working on the same maternity ward have now fallen ill, spurring an investigation into a possible cause.