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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Cardiology groups share new recommendations for performing safe, effective cardiac ablations in ASCs

The timing of this new guidance from the Heart Rhythm Society and American College of Cardiology could not have been better—the document went live just as CMS finalized its decision to cover cardiac ablation procedures performed in ASCs.

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Healthcare AI today: AI succeeds Hippocrates, Amazon looms large, 2026 predictions begin

The largest healthcare system in the Middle East is partnering with Nvidia to decode the human genome. If successful, the AI-heavy project will translate almost the entire language of heredity into actionable information.

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IVC filter recalled due to injury risk

Customers are urged to stop using these devices right away.

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Radiology group sues Trinity Health for $3M, claiming hospital partner ‘significantly mismanaged’ imaging services

Advanced Imaging Specialists, Danbury, Connecticut, alleges the breach of contract occurred shortly after it started performing services for 3 New England hospitals. 

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House lawmakers, ACR push bill requiring Medicaid to cover CT lung cancer screenings

U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., recently reintroduced the Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act. 

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Expanding lung cancer screening eligibility criteria could save tens of thousands of lives

“These findings suggest that current screening guidelines miss most patients with lung cancer, and age-based screening could improve detection and cost-effectiveness," experts note.

Rad tech who reconstructed CT images of women for his 'sexual proclivities' banned from working in healthcare

The radiographer claimed he created the images “for educational purposes,” but his colleagues maintain there was no clinical value to his recons.

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Elon Musk's 'DOGE' officially shut down, sources say

Reuters is reporting the White House has officially ended the staff-cutting project, which has been quiet since July. During its run, the Department of Government Efficiency cut thousands of staff from federal healthcare agencies.