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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Geographic information systems a useful tool for population health planning in radiology

Providers have previously deployed such analytics tools in public health programs, but their use has been scarce in imaging, Johns Hopkins experts wrote in JACR

Meet the ‘most loved’ healthcare companies

A handful of healthcare companies have made it onto Newsweek’s “Most Loved Workplaces” list. 

 

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Hospitals hamstrung by ‘obsolete’ imaging equipment, potentially endangering patients

New information shows 34% of these organizations are running MRI machines more than a decade old.

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Hospital system purchases local radiology practice

Great Falls, Montana-based Benefis Health System declined to disclose terms of the deal, which will add 2 imaging centers to its roster of facilities.

Federal security officials warn that ‘Made in China’ could one day go for tech-dependent US healthcare

U.S. healthcare may be high on China’s wish list of Western spheres of activity to infiltrate ever more deeply with artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.

Did female academic authorship decrease disproportionately due to COVID-19?

Although women are meaningfully represented in pediatric radiology academics, they are statistically less likely to rise to major roles within their departments.

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Lawmakers push feds to fix key surprise billing provision that has enraged radiologists

Bipartisan members of Congress are concerned the rule will lead to artificially low payment rates, which would narrow provider networks. 

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COVID-19 brought 'overt' care-rationing in radiology that’s worsening disparities. How to fix it

Experts suggest using “equity-weighted allocation strategies” to better target populations left under-imaged amid the pandemic.