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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Diagnostic mammograms not superior to screening for women with breast pain

A screen first approach for women who present with breast pain decreases healthcare spending without the risk of overlooking cancer, new analysis shows.

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3D printing use in radiology saves an estimated 41 minutes, $2,500 per case

RSNA and ACR in 2020 established a registry aimed at collecting standardized data on 3D printing performed in healthcare facilities, sharing their insights in a new analysis. 

Brent Townsend, MD, president and managing partner of Wake Radiology

Wake Radiology joins independent practice coalition, announces key physician’s retirement

Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and founded in 1953, the practice is the 40th to join Strategic Radiology and seventh in the state.

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ACR urges Congress to address ‘suboptimal’ Medicare local coverage determination process

The college's concerns came in response to a recent RFI from U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., on ways to modify healthcare policy. 

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Simple automated protocol halves radiology workstations' energy consumption

Although much of the energy consumed by imaging departments is unavoidable, experts propose that small, seemingly insignificant changes can be an effective means of reducing radiology’s carbon footprint. 

RadNet CEO Howard Berger

Amid heavy demand, patient backlogs, RadNet to add 21 imaging centers, ballooning total past 400

On a same-center basis, MRI volumes increased nearly 12% year over year, while CT grew by 10%, and PET/CT leapt 14%, the Los Angeles-based company said Wednesday.  

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‘Hungry judge effect’: How time of day can impact radiologists’ MRI reads

"Understanding these influences may contribute to optimizing work schedules and decreasing variability," NYU experts wrote in the European Journal of Radiology

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Radiologist launches independent job board to combat ‘disingenuous’ postings

Ben White, MD, recently soft-launched the service on his blog, highlighting 10 private practices that are hiring around the U.S.

Around the web

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.