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.

CVS, Kroger among bidders for Rite Aid stores and prescription data
According to a report, Walgreens also expressed interest in an unknown number of pharmacies as Rite Aid seeks to liquidate all its assets.
Cardiology employment models undergoing a dramatic shift
Gerald G. Blackwell, MD, MBA, MedAxiom's president and CEO, examined how different cardiology employment models look today compared to even a decade ago.
Former HHS Secretary Tom Price: Immigration reform could alleviate healthcare staffing crisis
Tom Price, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, and former secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an advocate for changing immigration policy to help solve the growing shortage of doctors and nurses in the U.S.
Original Banksy artwork headed to auction—proceeds will help fund heart research
The piece in question, which features a red heart-shaped balloon, has an unusual origin story, even by Banksy’s standards.
5 things to know about AI-toting healthcare ‘unicorns’
Why do investors equate these companies with beautiful, mythical beasts? Because startups with such dazzling attributes are—or long were—rarely seen.

Portable MRI enhanced by AI cleared for prostate imaging

A manufacturer of compact MRI machines that leverage AI to upgrade image quality has received FDA’s blessing to market its technology in the U.S.

CEO of private equity-backed Center for Diagnostic Imaging stepping down after 6 years

Kim Tzoumakas, 21st Century Oncology's former chief exec, is assuming the role and plans to guide the radiology firm through its next growth phase.

MRI founder celebrates the modality’s 50th anniversary by ringing Nasdaq closing bell

Raymond V. Damadian, MD, first discovered MR imaging in 1970, launching Fonar Corporation—the world's first MRI company—eight years later.

Radiologists grab majority share of growing lumbar puncture market, with more on the horizon

Imaging practices must determine how they will meet this "growing clinical need," including beefing up equipment and personnel, experts advised.

RadNet logs ‘record’ fourth quarter, buoyed by 3D mammo expansion, improved reimbursement

The Los Angeles-based operator has revised its investor guidance for 2021 to account for the rosier picture amid lifting COVID restrictions.

COVID crisis burnishes AI’s promise while magnifying chinks in its armor

The COVID crisis has spurred clinical researchers to look myriad ways AI might help win the war against the virus. Has the investigatory boomlet ended up raising as many nettlesome concerns as positive possibilities?

91% of consumer medical imaging tweets are negative, with most related to costs

Researchers hope their findings can motivate radiologists to consider costs from the patient's point of view, they explained Monday.

Google search trends help predict imaging demand among Medicare beneficiaries

Others have used the tech giant’s index of popular search terms to forecast everything from the stock market to disease outbreaks.

Management

CVS, Kroger among bidders for Rite Aid stores and prescription data

Cardiology employment models undergoing a dramatic shift

Former HHS Secretary Tom Price: Immigration reform could alleviate healthcare staffing crisis

Original Banksy artwork headed to auction—proceeds will help fund heart research

5 things to know about AI-toting healthcare ‘unicorns’