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.

Private equity firm jumps into vascular health with new investment
Vascular Technology, first founded 40 years ago, is planning on using the new funds to grow and expand its portfolio.
At a crossroads: Surgical heart valve innovation slows as transcatheter treatments keep evolving
Has the success of TAVR and other interventional techniques had a negative impact on surgical valve innovation? Two surgeons shared their concerns in a new commentary.
4 cybersecurity best practices for radiology groups
Digitization of exams has made the imaging industry a “prime target” for cybercriminals, experts wrote recently in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Radiologists say Senate budget changes ‘threaten’ access to medical education
The American College of Radiology, Society of Interventional Radiology and over 50 other medical societies expressed their concern to Senate committee leaders in a letter sent June 24.
What can federal health agencies do to revive the fading trust of the public?
Confidence in public health entities is spiraling downward in the U.S., and once-revered Washington institutions like the CDC and NIH are among the casualties in serious condition. How to break the negative momentum?

ACR, coalition of nearly 50 provider groups urge Congress to quash controversial code update

According to CMS estimates, the code would be responsible for 90% of the overall budget neutrality reduction tied to the conversion factor, advocates noted.

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The 6 factors that most commonly fuel breast radiologists’ desire to leave a job

"The survey created here can be administered by radiology practices to predict when breast radiologists are vulnerable to quitting,” researchers detailed in JACR.

What stakeholders are saying about the largest healthcare strike in history

Many healthcare watchers were taken by surprise when upwards of 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers went on strike last week.

Family of man who died of a heart attack settles lawsuit for $1.9M after error led to delayed care

EMTs waited outside the man's house for 13 minutes before finally entering. The delay, it turns out, was due to an error in the dispatcher's computer system.

Feds finally relaunch IDR under No Surprises Act following radiologist concern

“This announcement is a step in the right direction," the Radiology Business Management Association said on Friday.

Cardiologist’s date rape trial scheduled for March

The 35-year-old cardiologist faces a total of 51 felony charges. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.

Top trends in cardiac CT from SCCT 2023

Cardiac CT has been evolving rapidly in recent years. Brian Ghoshhajra, MD, outlined some of the main trends he has seen at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

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Clinical decision support has little impact on image-ordering behaviors, single-center study finds

CDS only added 24 seconds to ordering clinicians' workflows and rarely led to these individuals changing their radiology request, experts wrote in JACR.

Management

Private equity firm jumps into vascular health with new investment

At a crossroads: Surgical heart valve innovation slows as transcatheter treatments keep evolving

4 cybersecurity best practices for radiology groups

Radiologists say Senate budget changes ‘threaten’ access to medical education

What can federal health agencies do to revive the fading trust of the public?