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.

Medicare cost-cutting initiative targets ‘wasteful, inappropriate’ interventional radiology services
Interventional radiologists criticized the CMS proposal, believing it could lead to excess morbidity and mortality in Medicare.
University of Chicago names radiology chair, plus more leadership moves from Cleerly, ASTRO
Meanwhile, radiology AI vendor Cleerly has announced two leadership promotions while the American Society of Radiation Oncology has added a new role.
103K Medicare beneficiaries issued new IDs after ‘data incident’ at CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said “malicious actors” created fake accounts for Medicare beneficiaries through the agency’s patient portal, using stolen data from an unknown source. The incident is being investigated.
Philips and Medtronic extend 30 year patient monitoring partnership
The two companies will continue combining components to make patient monitoring systems, under the new terms of the expanded deal that includes a "pledge program" to improve quality.
FDA announces recall of Baxter infusion pumps with mismatched software
Spectrum V8 and V6 infusion pumps may have accidentally had their software switched, which could result in underinfusion or a fluid overload. While no injuries have been reported, for safety the affected pumps need to be removed from where they are used and sold.

Siemens to close Fast Track Diagnostics by end of year

Fast Track Diagnostics produced Siemens’s SARS-CoV-2 Assay test kits early in the Covid-19 pandemic, but a decline in testing demand from the peak of the pandemic led to the decision to shutter the unit.

Radiologists are not adequately disclosing their financial conflicts of interest on social media, study charges

"Physicians should apply the same principles of disclosure that they do to academic publications, conferences and their general practice,” researchers contend.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

RSNA launches new open-access medical journal

Available exclusively online, Radiology Advances will cover a wide variety of imaging topics, all without a subscription fee.

radiology reporting EHR health record CDS AUC

Novel workflow automatically integrates AI results into structured radiology reports

German experts detailed their experience with the “AI to SR pipeline” in an analysis published in Insights into Imaging.

Burnout remains high among radiology residents years after COVID-19 hit

The most commonly suggested remedies include lessening their work burden, providing more programmatic support and offering “protected wellness time.”

Healthcare AI: Welcome to our generation’s ‘great Gold Rush’

It’s more critical for U.S. healthcare to get medical AI right than to get it adopted far, wide and ASAP.

Change Healthcare reaches ‘important’ step in resumption of services after cyberattack

To aid in this transition, Change owner UnitedHealth Group has advanced more than $2 billion in payments through multiple initiatives.

Management

Medicare cost-cutting initiative targets ‘wasteful, inappropriate’ interventional radiology services

University of Chicago names radiology chair, plus more leadership moves from Cleerly, ASTRO

103K Medicare beneficiaries issued new IDs after ‘data incident’ at CMS

Philips and Medtronic extend 30 year patient monitoring partnership

FDA announces recall of Baxter infusion pumps with mismatched software