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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COVID Healthcare Workers

COVID death toll among US healthcare workers approaches 600, including several in the radiology community

That number, from Kaiser Health News, represents hundreds more deaths than the 379 estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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American College of Radiology forms new partnership to target under-imaged communities

Philanthropic nonprofit Rad-Aid deploys some 12,000 volunteers through outreach programs in 35 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. 

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More than 75% of radiology providers have resumed regular breast imaging, with a few new twists

Roughly 5% of such providers are actually seeing patient volumes that are higher than pre-COVID levels, according to a new analysis.  

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Establishing a post-COVID ‘capacity review process’ to gauge how a radiology practice is performing

As California has navigated step two of the governor’s reopening roadmap, Keck Medicine of USC has implemented a “phased and triaged” approach to working through its own deferred care backlog. 

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What recent changes to the Paycheck Protection Program mean for your radiology practice

President Donald Trump recently signed the PPP Flexibility Act of 2020 into law, following unanimous passage in the Senate.

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‘Devastating impact’: Imaging groups implore American Board of Radiology to target testing alternatives

The newly formed Multispecialty Early Radiologic Career Coalition is appealing the ABR to either administer tests virtually—as other specialty boards are doing during the pandemic—or at local testing centers around the country. 

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American College of Radiology expresses ‘significant concerns’ over easing physician supervision requirements

CEO William Thorwarth Jr., MD, outlined ACR’s apprehension in a recent letter to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 

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Longtime Indiana interventional radiologist who never missed a day on the job dies from COVID-19

Franklin Sequeira, 72, of Cicero, passed away on June 1 after a months-long battle with the disease, according to his family. 

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Health Imaging
American College of Radiology announces significant expansion of Lung Cancer Screening Registry

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

Health Imaging
AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

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.