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.

ED docs overusing CT imaging for gastrointestinal bleeding, study finds
Despite its high accuracy, CTA can come with tradeoffs including requiring radiologists to review a high number of images looking for findings that can be subtle, increasing case complexity and workloads.
Stanford Medicine picks RSNA president as next radiology chair
Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, currently is chief of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard professor of radiology, will take on the title beginning Feb. 1.
Nurse practitioner, nonprofit challenge Missouri’s collaborative practice law
Marcy Markes, NP, has secured representation from the Pacific Legal Foundation in an effort to overturn a state law that requires nurse practitioners to pay a physician “collaborator” if they wish to run their own practice. The lawsuit argues the regulation exists only to stifle competition.
Massachusetts settles $12M lawsuit against CVS over alleged drug overpricing
The pharmacy chain also agreed to perform an annual audit of billed drug prices to ensure it does not run afoul of the state’s “Most Favored Nation” policy.
GE HealthCare issues recall of C-arms due to missing shielding components
The Class 2 recall pertains to the system's built-in shielding and collimation accessories.

Ascension nurses prepare to go on strike

As the largest nurses strike in Texas history looms, Ascension threatens to lock out participants

Nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas, were initially prepared to participate in a one-day strike in protest of contract disputes.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Surprise-billing legislation took away Envision Healthcare’s ‘secret sauce,’ health economist says

Eileen Appelbaum, PhD, spoke during the Take Back Medicine summit, focused on the theme of “reclaiming medicine from corporate interests.”

FDA greenlights software that supports blood-flow analysis via MRI without contrast

iTFlow enables the visualization of fluid dynamics in the heart and blood vessels in both 2D and 3D, developer Cardio Flow Design said Monday.

ChatGPT excels at differential diagnostics in hard cases

Today’s generative AI—namely ChatGPT-4—is pretty darned good at parsing out probable diseases in difficult-to-diagnose patient cases.

RadNet closes public stock offering after raising $259M or 48% more than original ask

The Los Angeles-based imaging center operator sold a total of 8,711,250 shares of its stock at $29.75 apiece.

Eyeing overutilization, health system schools fledgling internists in Imaging Wisely

Following the intervention, learners demonstrated improved and sustained knowledge about high-value image ordering, experts wrote in JACR.

American College of Radiology tells CMS new quality measure would pose too much burden

The agency is proposing a new electronic clinical quality measure for inpatients tied to "excessive radiation dose or inadequate image quality."

Management

ED docs overusing CT imaging for gastrointestinal bleeding, study finds

Stanford Medicine picks RSNA president as next radiology chair

Nurse practitioner, nonprofit challenge Missouri’s collaborative practice law

Massachusetts settles $12M lawsuit against CVS over alleged drug overpricing

GE HealthCare issues recall of C-arms due to missing shielding components