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.

Hospital system in Michigan hit by cyberattack for second time in a year

McLaren Health Care said it is not sure if patient data was taken by hackers and it’s working with a cybersecurity firm to gather details.

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10 key updates from new American College of Cardiology inpatient heart failure recommendations

The new expert consensus decision pathway replaces a similar document from 2019 and is to be used in conjunction with heart failure guidelines published in 2022 by the ACC, American Heart Association and Heart Failure Society of America.

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Private equity linked to 23% of healthcare bankruptcies in 2024

A new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) found bankruptcies in healthcare continue to follow private equity buyouts.

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ACR urges Congress to address ‘suboptimal’ Medicare local coverage determination process

The college's concerns came in response to a recent RFI from U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., on ways to modify healthcare policy. 

Cardiologist Ami B. Bhatt, MD, a digital health specialist and longtime member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), will serve as the Digital Health Advisory Committee's very first chair.

Cardiologist to chair new FDA advisory committee focused on AI, other digital health technologies

The Digital Health Advisory Committee is tasked with providing perspective and recommendations on a wide variety of topics. These insights will then help the FDA draft new policies and make other important decisions.

Dan Blumenthal, MD, MBA, chief quality officer at the Cardiovascular Associates of America, and a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 2024 meeting business sessions on how changes in Medicare payments will impact electrophysiology and cardiology more broadly.

What cardiologists should expect as U.S. healthcare payment models evolve

Cardiologist Dan Blumenthal, MD, MBA, explains how changes in Medicare payments will greatly impact cardiology in the years ahead. In just a few short years, the business side of cardiology could look substantially different than it does today. 

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Private equity-backed cardiology group acquires at-home care specialists

Novolink Health, previously known as Duxlink Health, has a decade of experience treating high-risk, high-cost patients from the comfort of their own homes. It will now function as a division within Florida-based Cardiovascular Associates of America.

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Simple automated protocol halves radiology workstations' energy consumption

Although much of the energy consumed by imaging departments is unavoidable, experts propose that small, seemingly insignificant changes can be an effective means of reducing radiology’s carbon footprint.