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.

Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more
Bill Gates wasn’t just wrong to suggest AI will make physicians unnecessary. He was reckless.
Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’
Healthcare may finally have struck a healthy balance between AI hype and AI reality, according to a report from impartial observers who are also, indirectly at least, healthcare AI stakeholders.
Sen. Warren fears $10B private equity buyout of Walgreens will create ‘pharmacy deserts’
The Massachusetts senator is asking buyer Sycamore Partners for certain assurances, including that it won’t saddle the struggling pharmacy chain with even more debt and indiscriminately close retail locations.
Supreme Court sides with HHS in hospital payment dispute
In a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court affirmed the formula used by the federal government to calculate Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments is legal and consistent with the law passed by Congress.
Tampa General radiology rides out 2 hurricanes with strategic disaster preparedness
Raj Kedar, MD, chief of imaging, discusses how the hospital planned to continue operations last fall when faced with hurricanes Helene and Milton.

COVID-19 PHE extended to mid-April

The renewal comes as the country is facing another wave of COVID-19 infections, this time from a new variant identified as XBB.1.5.

NYC nurses reach contract agreement with hospitals, ending strike

A nurses union in New York City has reached an agreement with two hospitals, ending a three-day strike.

Plans for another nuclear facility that can produce medical isotopes in the works

Many of the facilities that produce these critical isotopes are aging, which is a big cause for concern in the future among experts in the field, many of whom believe that the supply chain for radioisotopes is already fragile.

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Cardiologists push for a more diverse, inclusive healthcare workforce

A recent roundtable discussion focused on how today's healthcare leaders can "begin to dismantle the systems that perpetuate inequities in medicine and build new systems that promote diversity, equity and inclusive excellence."

Mo-99 supplier reaches ‘major milestone’ in non-uranium-based production

Backed with financial support and technical prowess from the U.S. Department of Energy, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has shown it can produce, at scale, a critical nuclear imaging radiotracer without using highly enriched uranium.

Why would an ambitious radiologist choose rural life and practice? 4 reasons

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”

FDA announces recall of adrenaline lots

Spectrum Laboratory Products is voluntarily recalling the lots after customer complaints found the adrenaline to be discolored.

Bernie Sanders slams Moderna for planned COVID-19 vaccine price hike

After Moderna leadership revealed plans to potentially quadruple the price of its COVID-19 vaccine, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and others criticized the move.

Management

Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more

Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’

Sen. Warren fears $10B private equity buyout of Walgreens will create ‘pharmacy deserts’

Supreme Court sides with HHS in hospital payment dispute

Tampa General radiology rides out 2 hurricanes with strategic disaster preparedness