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.

Houston Texas

RadNet acquiring 6 imaging centers, adding $15M in annual revenue

American Health Imaging, a partner with the larger private equity-backed US Radiology Specialists, is selling the locations. 

Aalpen Patel MedQuest Associates

Radiology provider MedQuest Associates names IR specialist as new chief clinical and innovation officer

Aalpen Patel, MD, MBA, joined the Georgia-based imaging center operator in March, vacating his post as a practicing physician with Geisinger Health System. 

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Practice must pay $14M after table collapses under patient during imaging exam, jury rules

The original inciting incident occurred in July 2014, when 58-year-old James Griswold visited the Connecticut provider group for a nuclear stress imaging test. 

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Small practices left vulnerable after Change Healthcare cyberattack, with some considering bankruptcy

"These survey data show, in stark terms, that practices will close because of this incident," said AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD.

 

Semiautonomous AI shows potential to reduce false positives, unnecessary procedures and medical expenses

Scientists developed the deep learning algorithm using a set of over 123,000 digital mammograms (including 6,100-plus cancer cases). 

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Submitted for consideration by all healthcare AI stakeholders: 10 principles, 6 commitments, 1 direction

Key collaborators across the healthcare AI life cycle now have a common set of principles to which they can hold each other. And that means everyone from developers and researchers to providers, regulators and even patients.

Radiology Imaging Associates adopts AbbaDox at its 17 locations

The chain of imaging centers produces 600,000 patient scans each year in Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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ImagingU offers combo virtual reality MRI simulation, technologist certification course

Participants in the course will have six months of access to a new MRI VR sim. The class modules begin on May 1.