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.

Instylla Embrace Hydrogel Embolic System

New liquid embolic agent for hypervascular tumors gains FDA’s premarket approval

Instylla's Embrace Hydrogel Embolic System minimizes bleeding risks during the embolization of hypervascular tumors in the peripheral arteries.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association BCBS

Radiologists opt out of $2.8B Blue Cross Blue Shield settlement to pursue own litigation

Plaintiffs in the complaint include Radiology Partners and its affiliates, the Arkansas-based Highlands Oncology Group and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. 

cybersecurity hacker ransomware cyber data breach

5 takeaways from new ACR, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine cybersecurity guidance

The two recently convened a panel of multidisciplinary stakeholders to discuss this issue, including radiologists, technologists, informaticists and physicists. 

artificial intelligence AI predictive analytics

Radiologist says specialty should harness AI to prepare for demand spikes

Harvard radiologists recently created a machine learning model based on the number of unread images, which can accurately predict next-day demand.

patients who write online reviews of providers

What providers should know about patients who post healthcare reviews online

When dissatisfied patients slam provider entities in online reviews, they tend to focus on administrative frustrations and thwarted requests. By contrast, satisfied healthcare consumers write quick, list-like rundowns of things that pleased them. 

merger acquisition M&A business

FTC challenges ‘anticompetitive’ TAVR acquisition

The FTC is working to stop Edwards Lifesciences from completing its acquisition of JenaValve. Edwards, however, is not backing down.

Reprocessed Supreme Fixed Electrophysiology Catheter

FDA announces new recall of reprocessed EP catheters due to risk of contamination

Customers with these devices on hand are asked to return them right away. No serious injuries have been reported at this time, but the presence of residual particulates can lead to such side effects as pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.

UnitedHealthcare HQ Sign

It’s official: Breach of Change Healthcare impacted 193M people

The number is almost double initial estimates. With final data breach notifications now sent, UnitedHealthcare said its investigation into the February 2024 ransomware attack is coming to a close.