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.

Chris Espinosa, CBET, a biomedical engineer and regional service manager from InterMed, outlines some of the issues facing rural hospitals and why they can have longer downtime for equipment than larger metropolitan area hospitals.

Rural hospitals face equipment uptime challenges—here's how to overcome them

Rural hospitals face greater challenges than their metropolitan counterparts in keeping medical equipment operational, because there's rarely a vendor technician around when they need one. 

Women's Center for Radiology

Solis Mammography expands into Orlando, acquiring private practice and its 2 imaging centers

The Women's Center for Radiology employs five radiologists and has served central Florida for over 36 years. 

Strategic Radiology

Strategic Radiology expands into Wisconsin, adding 60-year-old private practice

Founded in 1969, Radiology Chartered employs 15 physicians, handling over 400,000 procedures per year and serving the Emplify Health hospital system. 

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ACA enrollment on the skids as Americans face higher premiums

As of January 3, 2026, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows that, while 22.8 million Americans used Affordable Care Act exchanges to buy medical coverage, that’s 1.2 million fewer enrollees than last year. 

Epic, provider groups sue companies over alleged scheme to sell patient data

In a lawsuit, the EHR giant accuses Health Gorilla, et al., of posing as patient care entities to gain access to nearly 300,000 medical records, in violation of HIPAA. Health Gorilla vehemently denies the allegations.

FDA clears HeartLung's opportunistic AI-CVD platform

FDA clears opportunistic AI platform capable of screening for multiple diseases with a single scan

AI-CVD is a quantitative imaging tool that uses computed tomography images to identify and quantify a myriad diseases. 

Boston Scientific Farapoint pulsed field ablation (PFA) catheter

FDA approves Boston Scientific’s Farapoint PFA catheter

The newest addition to the company's Farapulse PFA Platform was specifically approved to perform cavotricuspid isthmus ablation. 

merger acquisition M&A business

Haemonetics acquires Irish medtech company focused on vessel closure for up to $215M

The device at the heart of this transaction is the PerQseal Elite system, a fully bioabsorbable patch for percutaneous vessel closure. The technology has already gained key approvals in Europe.