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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Investor-backed radiology firm Envision Healthcare upped lobbying by 400% in Q2

The $400,000 outlay came at a time when overall lobbying across the healthcare sector plummeted, according to a recent analysis. 

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Confronting COVID’s ‘brutal reality’ while plotting radiology’s post-pandemic future: 5 factors to watch

ACR President Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, detailed planning advice from her own institution in a new opinion piece, published in JACR

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FDA issues new guidance on how mammography facilities can contest adverse appeals decisions

Its announcement comes on the same day that the FDA was set to resume regular imaging site inspections that have been on hold during the pandemic.

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American College of Cardiology ‘disappointed’ by Trump’s decision to exit WHO

“Diseases don't respect geographic and political boundaries," wrote ACC President Athena Poppas, MD, and others. 

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Radiology providers want 1% Medicare pay hike to cover COVID supplies, federal loans for imaging upgrades

Radiologists and rad techs have been hit hard by the pandemic and need help in maintaining their arsenal of diagnostic tools, the American College of Radiology, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and others wrote recently.  

Living with the COVID crisis: Questions you’ve been waiting to ask of an expert

What are the odds of getting exposed to COVID-19 at a supermarket versus at a restaurant seating customers at every other table? The consensus answer from numerous authoritative voices may surprise you.

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Hospitals, nurses and docs urge Senate leaders to earmark funds for disparities in COVID care

CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

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Philips’ sales slide 6% amid slowdown in imaging installations, procedures

While the Amsterdam-based manufacturer logged diagnostic imaging sales in line with Q2 2019, Philips’ ultrasound business showed a “mid-single-digit decrease,” and image-guided therapy dropped by double digits.