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.

‘Dead wrong’: American College of Radiology sounds alarm over low doc engagement on high-impact issue

The Radiology Advocacy Network is trying to drum up support for a bill to grant rads a pay hike, but they're seeing historically low response rates.

3 ways to drive rather than react to workforce changes quickened by COVID

COVID-19 has not so much rebooted U.S. healthcare’s workforce as it has hastened transformative changes in staffing strategies that were taking shape before the pandemic got here.

94% of patients at high risk for lung cancer failed to undergo LDCT screening

Out of about 8 million Americans in this patient population, only 5.7% underwent low-dose computed tomography in 2019, according to a new analysis.

ACR experts advising President’s Cancer Panel on boosting breast imaging numbers post-COVID-19

Reduced access to mammography and other services may "exacerbate already significant disparities," Chief Research Officer Etta Pisano, MD, said.

American Medical Association declares racism an ‘urgent public health threat’

AMA called for systemic and structural change to improve the health of the nation as a whole.

$500K on the table in AI vs. COVID contest

Nonprofit competition organizer XPrize is partnering with global tech consultancy Cognizant to award AI innovators in a pandemic response challenge.

Center for Diagnostic Imaging enters new market with acquisition of 8 outpatient radiology centers

Leaders with the growing practice said they’ll continue to seek further deals in the near term, focusing on “high quality providers in attractive markets.”

Low-dose CT lung cancer screening adherence rates may be even worse than reported

Rates varied dramatically, falling as low as 12% and high as 91%, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

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