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.

Hundreds of radiation therapy systems subject to FDA recall
A Class 2 recall has been issued for the systems due to a software glitch that could impact treatment accuracy.
Healthcare AI today: Inflationary AI, China’s AI vs. ours, Joint Commission AI guidance, more
Picture yourself interacting with an AI model that can tell you when you might develop any of 1,000 disease conditions over the coming 10+ years. OK, now see yourself finding out such a model is already here.
Radiology advocates say ‘excessive’ cut to Medicare practice-expense pay could imperil independent docs
CMS is trying to even out pay gaps between hospital and office-based physicians, but rad groups said the move lacks supporting data and could adversely impact interventinoal specialists.
Radiologists 2nd among specialties with highest on-call pay
Members of the specialty collect an average of about $1,845 in per-day call pay, behind only neurosurgeons ($2,045) and ahead of pathologists ($1,700).
GE HealthCare mulls multibillion-dollar sale of China business line: Report
The Chicago-based imaging giant has consulted with advisors about options to unload the division,
Bloomberg first reported Thursday.

White House taps Obama administration vet as potential first Black woman to lead CMS

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure previously served as a top health official working to implement the Affordable Care Act and aided President Biden’s team in assessing HHS during the administration switchover.

‘We’re cheap’: Following radiology exit, Mednax opts not to change name back to Pediatrix

The Sunrise, Florida, physician firm had originally hoped to rebrand as a nod to its start as a single neonatology group in 1979.

Hitachi sets March closing date for $1B sale of imaging assets to rival Fujifilm

Both had publicly discussed the transaction as far back as December 2019, but COVID-19 put the blockbuster deal on hold.

IBM floats the shopping around of Watson Health

International Business Machines Corp. is looking into dealing its AI-pioneering Watson Health unit so the parent can move more nimbly into cloud computing, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

AI-powered voice screening for COVID earns CE mark

An Israeli AI startup has been cleared to market COVID-detecting voice analysis software in Europe, according to No Camels.

Intelerad Medical Systems acquires Lumedx

Intelerad Medical Systems has acquired Lumedx, an Oakland, California-based healthcare technology company focused on analytics and cardiovascular information systems. This is Intelerad’s third acquisition in the last seven months.

Black women imaged for breast cancer less frequently than white counterparts, with DBT often underused

This disparity occurred despite numbers showing that women across all races experienced lower recall rates when examined with digital breast tomosynthesis.

COVID-19 coronavirus burnout depression pandemic

More than 50% of radiologists suffering emotional stress, including feelings of ‘living in slow motion’

About 60% said they experienced a workload reduction greater than half during the pandemic, according to a survey of 2,150 rads.

Management

Hundreds of radiation therapy systems subject to FDA recall

Healthcare AI today: Inflationary AI, China’s AI vs. ours, Joint Commission AI guidance, more

Radiology advocates say ‘excessive’ cut to Medicare practice-expense pay could imperil independent docs

Radiologists 2nd among specialties with highest on-call pay

GE HealthCare mulls multibillion-dollar sale of China business line: Report