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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FDA approves hydrogel to stop severe, life-threatening bleeding

Traumagel is applied to wounds using a syringe and can be used even on traumatic injuries, such as those from gunshots.

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Q&A: Tips to thrive as an independent practice in the age of consolidation

An interview with Rik Baier, CMPE, Chief Executive Officer of Barrington Orthopedic Specialists and the Schaumburg Surgery Center, on the struggle of maintaining practice autonomy.

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Radiology information systems provider reports data breach

The cyberattack impacted patient information including dates of birth, driver’s license and Social Security numbers, medical records, and health insurance details. 

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Rad tech advocates submit 42,000 comments to feds in push to gain ‘professional’ status

Every 10 years, the Office of Management and Budget reclassifies jobs as either “technical” or “professional,” with the window now open. 

Bharath Krishnamurthy, a director of Health Policy and Analytics at the American Hospital Association (AHA), explains explains how drug shortages and supply chain issues are negatively impacting U.S. healthcare.

Drug shortages jeopardize patient access to quality hospital care

American Hospital Association Director of Health Policy and Analytics Bharath Krishnamurthy explains how drug shortages and supply chain issues are negatively impacting U.S. healthcare.

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Women in interventional cardiology much more likely to leave practice than men

Why are so many female interventional cardiologists saying goodbye to the specialty? Researchers explored this troubling trend in JAMA Cardiology.

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White House unveils lower prices for popular heart, diabetes drugs after Medicare negotiations

Apixaban, empagliflozin, rivaroxaban and sacubitril/valsartan are just some of the medications included in this initial round of Medicare price negotiations. Their new prices were reduced by 56%, 66%, 62% and 53%, respectively. 

An Illinois appellate judge upheld a pervious trial victory that cleared and central Illinois cardiologist Amit Dande, MD, and Prairie Cardiovascular Consults LLP of alleged misdiagnosis of the severity of a patient's heart condition that led to his death prior to a schedule percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Radiologist faces blame after ‘inadequate’ CT report overlooks deadly bowel cancer case

The controversy dates to 2018, when a woman underwent a CT scan for abdominal pain and a rad overlooked bowel cancer on the images.