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.

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President outlines public-private vision for mass digitizing of health data, reinstates Presidential Fitness Test for youth

What President Trump has in mind is a populace equipped with smartphone apps run by tech companies and confident enough in those apps to willingly upload much if not all of their personal health data. All that and fit kids too. 

New details surrounding fatal Long Island MRI accident prompt more questions

New information indicates Nassau Open MRI has closed circuit video cameras throughout its facility, including in the control room of the MRI trailer attached to the building where the accident took place. 

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UnitedHealth’s Optum Radiology division expands imaging services on East Coast

Industry watchers have accused the healthcare conglomerate of having conflicting interests—employing docs and delivering medical imaging while also negotiating contracts with radiology practices. 

Technologists shouldn’t be alone when administering contrast for remote imaging scans, radiology groups say

One imaging policy expert called this stance from ACR and ASRT a “devastating blow” to physician offices and independent diagnostic testing facilities who use virtual supervision for Medicare patients. 

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Father-son scan startup Maui Imaging balloons fundraising to $40M

Founded in 2006 by Don and Dave Specht, the Arizona company’s computed “echo tomography” product uses sound waves to cross through body barriers for “rapid and effective imaging.” 

WashU AI device earns FDA's Breakthrough Device designation.

'Revolutionary' AI risk assessment tool earns FDA's Breakthrough Device designation

The technology is said to be twice as accurate at predicting five-year cancer risk compared to current risk assessment methods.

Alan Matsumoto, MD, FSIR, FACR, FAHA, Chairman of Board for the American College of Radiology, professor of radiology and chair of the Department of Radiology, at the University of Virginia, explains ACR support for the Radiology Outpatient Ordering Transmission (ROOT) Act bill in Congress that calls for appropriate use criteria to be used instead of prior authorization.

ACR supports bringing back clinical decision support to combat prior authorizations

Alan Matsumoto, MD, chair of the American College of Radiology, explains ACR support for the Radiology Outpatient Ordering Transmission (ROOT) Act in Congress. 

Novel shielding device provides more radiation protection during mammograms.

Novel shielding device gives patients 80% better protection from radiation during mammograms

Experts are hopeful their device can address some of the shortcomings of currently used shielding methods. 

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