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.

Paleo-radiologist: ‘I saw the king’s face for the first time’

Thanks to a radiologist equipped with CT and 3D image reconstruction, Pharaoh Amenhotep I is finally getting a proper clinical workup.

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Radiology trainees win over trauma surgeons with immediate reads

When trained with high-fidelity simulation, junior radiology residents can master the discipline of reading whole-body CTs right at the trauma scanner—and doing so with high diagnostic accuracy, work speed and interpretive confidence.

Mo-99 supplier reaches ‘major milestone’ in non-uranium-based production

Backed with financial support and technical prowess from the U.S. Department of Energy, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has shown it can produce, at scale, a critical nuclear imaging radiotracer without using highly enriched uranium.

Why would an ambitious radiologist choose rural life and practice? 4 reasons

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”

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GE HealthCare eyes IR guidance company, releases revenue results

Less than a week after ringing the Nasdaq opening bell to showcase its long-awaited independence, GE HealthCare has announced a first strategic acquisition is in the works.

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Autonomous radiology stalwart taking health insurance internal

The independent-practice coalition Strategic Radiology has founded a captive health insurance program to offer its 1,500 or so member physicians and their respective support staffs.  

5 avenues along which the 10-year-old Society of Abdominal Radiology is advancing

Did you know the SAR formed when the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists merged with the Society of Uroradiology?

 Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (USMS), is addressing health inequities in mammography using its Mammovan mobile breast imaging screening program. Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, explained how the program works. #RSNA #RSNA22

VIDEO: Bringing health equity to mammography and health screenings in Arkansas

Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, division chief of breast imaging and associate director for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas, discussed how her center addressed health inequities in mammography.

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

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.