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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Data breach may have exposed Medicare patient data

The breach may involve Medicare beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information (PII) and/or protected health information (PHI).

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Corindus, acquired back in 2019, is now Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics

The company's most well-known product within the industry is the CorPath GRX System, a second-generation robotics solution used by interventional cardiologists during PCI and other interventional procedures.

NCI director announces breast cancer diagnosis

The director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, revealed her breast cancer diagnosis on Dec. 14.

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Mike Gabler, a heart valve specialist with Edwards Lifesciences, wins Survivor—and donates his $1M prize

Gabler, a Texas native, has two decades of experience in the cardiology space, spending the last 11 years with Edwards Lifesciences. He has also previously worked for both Medtronic and Boston Scientific.

Regulatory hurdles cleared by MedCognetics, Novartis

The Dallas-based company says its product incorporates bias-busting algorithms that overcome the lack of diverse populations available for model training.

Andrei Churyla, MD, Douglas Johnston, MD, and R. Kannan Mutharasan, MD, tour a clinic room designed for future AI technology pilots at Palos Hospital.

Northwestern Medicine opens advanced outpatient cardiac clinic at suburban Chicago

Northwestern Medicine opens a new outpatient cardiology clinic to address better patient access to care in Chicago's south suburbs. 

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On its own, MRI-targeted biopsy takes big bite out of prostate cancer overdiagnosis

The gain came with the delayed discovery of only a few clinically significant cancers.

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Health spending reached $4.3 trillion in 2021

After a significant jump in healthcare spending in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare spending in the United States only increased 2.7% in 2021, according to new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published in Health Affairs.