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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GE HealthCare acquires full stake in radiopharma firm that generated $183M last year

Tokyo-based Nihon Medi-Physics' portfolio includes nuclear imaging agents delivered across oncology, neurology and cardiology. 

Raidium

Startup Raidium raises nearly $17M, seeks to launch the ‘GPT of radiology’

The French company plans to open new offices in the U.S., expand its network, pursue FDA certification and intensify research and development. 

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Today's radiologist workforce will spend nearly $984M on certification

The figure includes about $208.5 million for initial board certification and another $775.3 million for maintaining the designation over a 35-year career. 

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ACR, American Hospital Association urge Congress to create path for foreign-born docs to relieve shortages

Hospitals and physicians are pressing lawmakers to pass two previously proposed pieces of legislation that allow international medical graduates to work here longer. 

Sirona Medical

Radiology IT firm Sirona Medical raises $42M in Series C financing

The startup, which offers cloud-based software that integrates disparate elements of a rad's workflow, also named a new CEO. 

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Growing number of US senators support bill to address radiologist pay cut

41 members of the upper chamber recently penned a letter to colleagues, contending that inaction could impact seniors’ access to care. 

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‘Persistent’ low utilization of key interventional service raises radiologist concern

Embolization is a safe, cost-effective alternative to a hysterectomy, but patients are not using the IR service in some geographies. 

Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers inks 10-year, $105M imaging value partnership with large medical center

The deal is with the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, covering equipment purchases and consulting services. 

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.