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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Female radiologists scoring promotions at higher rate than male colleagues

Imaging experts speculated that the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors may be helping to improve gender disparities across the profession. 

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Diagnostic imaging chain diversifies, adding urology group and its 16 locations

Affidea is one of the largest radiology providers in Europe, operating a network of 391 centers spanning 15 countries and handling 20 million scans annually. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Silent AI threats, overeager clinical AI, trustworthy AI therapists, more

Some AI decision-support models have a proclivity for recommending aggressive care pathways. And doing so on the basis of patient demographics, not medical necessity.

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Nurses developing mysterious brain tumors

While the tumors are all benign, five nurses working on the same maternity ward have now fallen ill, spurring an investigation into a possible cause. 

ACC President Cathie Biga, MSN, president/CEO Cardiovascular Management of Illinois, discusses a letter ACC sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stressing some of the big challenges facing healthcare and cardiology from Trump administration policies.

'We need to come together as a nation': Why science, not politics, should guide healthcare policies

ACC Immediate Past President Cathie Biga spoke to Cardiovascular Business about some of the challenges healthcare faces in the wake of mass layoffs and significant funding cuts put in place by the Trump administration.

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Supreme Court lifts Ninth Circuit order that reinstated federal workers

Among the agencies impacted is the Department of Veterans Affairs, which released thousands of probationary workers as part of a staffing purge conducted by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Man in custody after allegedly impersonating a cardiologist—at least 7 patients are dead

He is accused of claiming to be a cardiologist from London and performing heart surgeries at a hospital in India.

FDA clears new device for enabling access to the heart’s surface without an exposed needle

CardioVia's ViaOne technology includes a blunt-tip needle that remains concealed to help interventional cardiologists and electrophysiologists treat cardiac arrhythmias with a reduced risk of perforation or any other complications.