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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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Average radiologist pay has leapt nearly 38% since 2015

Members of the specialty have seen their compensation climb from $351K to $483K, according to the latest data from Medscape. 

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Private equity-backed imaging software provider Intelerad names new CEO

Jordan Bazinsky takes over for the retiring Mike Lipps, who has served in the role since October 2020.
 

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Low levels of ‘organizational readiness’ could be holding back lung cancer screening programs

Willingness to change among radiologists and staff members (rather than leadership) has the biggest impact on lung cancer screening success, public health researchers reported Monday. 

Adopting paid family and medical leave in radiology: 7 considerations

“Paid FML is increasingly being recognized as an important issue in medicine," radiologists wrote recently in AJR. 

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One-fourth of practices say operating costs are up, with 93% facing clinical staffing shortages

Another 80% of physicians believe such challenges are worse than they were in 2022, according to survey data from ASTRO. 

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Risk model helps radiologists predict whether patients will experience contrast-associated injury after CT

The study represents the largest and most comprehensive investigation of contrast-associated acute kidney injury in patients with cancer. 

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Investors pour $5B into imaging AI, with average deal size tripling since 2020

There are now more than 200 independent medical imaging AI software vendors, with 73% of the funds concentrated among the top 25. 

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Vanderbilt-Philips partnership; FDA clears brain MRI software; Visage scores $20M deal, plus more vendor news

Also, lung cancer-focused Leadoptik scores $5M in seed financing, Hyperfine earns $3M grant to extend research, and Intelerad supports new AAWR-RadEqual partnership. 

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Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.