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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Patient access to radiology reports: 2 angles

Should patients read their radiology reports ahead of the doctor who ordered the exam? That’s not a new question. It was supposed to have been settled in the affirmative by the 21st Century Cures Act.

Google Cloud intros ambitious branch dedicated to medical imaging

A Big Four tech company has launched a platform it hopes will accelerate data interoperability and AI adoption in, specifically, medical imaging.

Mr. O’Lear receives his sentence: 15 years and $2M

The criminal saga of the X-ray business owner who got caught fleecing CMS of $2 million—while grabbing for another $1.7 million or so—has reached its epilogue.

3 new POCUS products demoed for emergency docs

Butterfly Network, Mindray and Philips introduced new point-of-care ultrasound offerings at ACEP 2022, the annual scientific assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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Disparities in breast cancer detection and care persist, despite a drop in mortality, new ACS report reveals

While Black women have lower incidence of breast cancer diagnosis, their mortality rates are 40% higher than those observed in white women.  

Radiation oncology relatively low in ‘hazardous attitudes,’ although ‘macho’ makes the radar

The Federal Aviation Administration assesses pilots for five “hazardous attitudes” that may forewarn of risky behaviors in the air. Therapeutic radiology researchers have adapted the FAA scale for radiation oncologists making treatment decisions.

Formidable tumors tamed by genetically modified … herpes?

A genetically engineered iteration of the herpes simplex virus has beaten back several advanced cancers in an early trial.

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FDA clears 2D image-reconstruction product for 3D MRI

GE Healthcare may ship its deep learning-based image reconstruction software called AIR Recon DL with new 3D capabilities, the company announced Sept. 29.

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Health Imaging
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.