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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4 ‘essential pro tips’ when transitioning into radiology private practice

Making the leap from training to that first job can be an “exhilarating yet challenging” phase of a physician’s career, experts detailed in JACR. 

Deep learning discerns meat safety quickly, economically

Apart from software, the technique needs nothing more than a halogen lamp and a commercial-grade spectrometer. This pairing can be had together for well under $5,000.

Dipti Itchhaporia named new American College of Cardiology president

Itchhaporia, an interventional cardiologist, most recently served as the ACC's vice president. 

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Rise in aggressive breast cancer among women under 40 may warrant public health attention

The proportion of patients treated for invasive carcinoma or an advanced stage of the disease have both leapt in recent years, experts wrote in Clinical Imaging

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Biden administration promotes new Obamacare subsidies in $50M campaign

The American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law that provided stimulus checks to most Americans, included several healthcare changes that will reduce costs for many Americans. The Biden administration is now preparing to spend $50 million in advertising to promote those healthcare changes,

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Minorities are severely underrepresented in healthcare workforce

A new study reveals Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans are “severely” underrepresented in the healthcare workforce, an issue that could exacerbate disease disparities.

 

FTC files suit to stop Illumina’s $7.1B takeover of life sciences firm

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Illumina, a gene sequencing firm, in an effort to stop its proposed $7.1 billion acquisition of life sciences firm Grail. 

 

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Moody’s upgrades outlook for imaging giant RadNet amid climbing patient volumes

The ratings agency first issued its downgrade in July, citing the risk of prolonged business impact from COVID-19 and uncertainty around radiology's future.