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.

Immigration attorney Kathleen Campbell Walker explains how can immigration help solve the healthcare staffing shortages.

Immigration barriers prevent solution to healthcare staffing shortages

Kathleen Campbell Walker, JD, immigration practice attorney, and past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), explains the barriers to global physician mobility amid growing shortages.

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Patient education materials get boost in readability from generative AI

Ideally, educational pamphlets for patients should be written at a sixth grade reading level, according to the American Medical Association.

SCAI calls on interventional cardiologists to tell Washington to reverse physician pay cuts

Congress is considering two bills that would prevent or mitigate the Medicare physician payment cuts that went into effect in January 2024, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is urging members write their Congressmen.

Pedro Martinez Clark, MD, is helping to addressing health disparities and high PAD and CLI rates in Latin and Haitian communities in Miami.

Addressing high PAD and CLI rates in Latin and Haitian communities of Miami

Pedro Martinez Clark, MD, FSCAI, interventional cardiologist, medical director of Amavita Heart and Vascular Health in Miami, set up community outreach efforts to screen patients in low-income neighborhoods.
 

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Nearly half of FDA cleared AI medical devices have not been validated on patient data

The FDA’s current draft guidance on the approval process for AI devices does not specify the type of validation the agency recommends manufacturers use. 

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Radiologists ‘especially successful’ in surprise-billing disputes, notching payments 500% above QPA

UPDATED: Private equity-backed groups such as Rad Partners have dominated IDR use, with "little evidence" rank-and-file radiologists are using the system, experts wrote in Health Affairs. 

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Startup Prenuvo to park ‘luxury’ whole-body MRI truck on Canadian border amid regulatory challenges

Despite amassing a wait list of 10,000 individuals, the company has confronted “significant barriers due to restrictions on private imaging services in Ontario.” 

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FDA issues guidance to help imaging providers comply with new mammography requirements

Beginning September 10, breast imaging facilities will be required to notify patients about the density of their breasts, among other regulatory changes.