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.

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Edwards continues valve-focused M&A streak by acquiring promising TAVR startup

The move makes it crystal clear that Edwards remains focused on pursuing advanced TAVR technologies. The company just acquired JenaValve, another company dedicated to developing new AR treatments, back in July.

Ron Blankstein, MD, FACC, FASNC, MSCCT, FASPC, associate director, cardiovascular imaging program, director, cardiac computed tomography, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a professor of medicine and radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains why Medicare is proposing increased coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) payments to hospitals.

Higher payments for CCTA could bring considerable change to cardiology

Ron Blankstein, MD, explains how and why Medicare is proposing an increase to hospital payments for coronary CT angiography.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle: How cath labs can lower cardiology’s colossal carbon footprint

Cath labs, like radiology suites and operating rooms, are leading contributors to the world’s growing carbon footprint.

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FDA approves hydrogel to stop severe, life-threatening bleeding

Traumagel is applied to wounds using a syringe and can be used even on traumatic injuries, such as those from gunshots.

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Q&A: Tips to thrive as an independent practice in the age of consolidation

An interview with Rik Baier, CMPE, Chief Executive Officer of Barrington Orthopedic Specialists and the Schaumburg Surgery Center, on the struggle of maintaining practice autonomy.

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Radiology information systems provider reports data breach

The cyberattack impacted patient information including dates of birth, driver’s license and Social Security numbers, medical records, and health insurance details. 

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Rad tech advocates submit 42,000 comments to feds in push to gain ‘professional’ status

Every 10 years, the Office of Management and Budget reclassifies jobs as either “technical” or “professional,” with the window now open. 

Bharath Krishnamurthy, a director of Health Policy and Analytics at the American Hospital Association (AHA), explains explains how drug shortages and supply chain issues are negatively impacting U.S. healthcare.

Drug shortages jeopardize patient access to quality hospital care

American Hospital Association Director of Health Policy and Analytics Bharath Krishnamurthy explains how drug shortages and supply chain issues are negatively impacting U.S. healthcare.

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