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.

ACR wants transparency as feds work to speed up Medicare coverage for ‘breakthrough’ devices

CMS is proposing to close the so-called “valley of death” between FDA approval of imaging products and Medicare payment authorization.

RadNet sees ‘substantial’ rebound from pandemic woes in Q3, with sequential revenues up 53%

Leaders with the Los Angeles-based outpatient imaging giant partially credited “aggressive" cost containment measures for their rosier financial picture.

Health execs best consider now what a ‘Bidencare’ might look like later

As Joe Biden makes plans to intensify the federal response to the COVID crisis, he can expect support on that agenda item from 77% of Democrats, 62% of independents, 55% of Republicans and 50% of others.

Mednax Radiology logs $126M in Q3 revenue ahead of closing mega deal with Rad Partners

The Florida firm recorded $21.1 million in imaging earnings as it seeks regulatory approval for the business line's divestiture.

Radiologists experience significantly less happiness, meaning in their work than docs in other departments

This discrepancy occurred despite physicians in imaging reporting burnout rates nearly identical to their nonradiologist counterparts.

Microsoft finetuning anti-pandemic technologies in a ‘stimulating playground for algorithm development’

A university, health system and tech giant are piloting the use of deep learning with IoT and edge computing to block COVID-19 from infiltrating a 548-bed hospital.

SCCT shares new imaging guideline for cardiology, radiology trainees

The document, published in numerous journals, was designed to help trainees improve their understanding of cardiovascular computed tomography.

Health execs implementing AI undaunted by COVID

Almost half the 540-participant cohort is already using at least one form of AI.

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