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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Radiology Partners continues to grow, adding two more practices to its portfolio

With these latest acquisitions, the El Segundo, California, company now operates with more than 1,500 radiologists in 24 states. 

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Radiologist scores $300K grant to develop dual-imaging modality for ovarian cancer treatment

Radiologist Vikas Kundra, MD, is teaming up with UC Riverside bioengineer Bahman Anvari on the investigation, with plans to begin testing the imaging method on mice.

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Integrating peer review into PACS helps boost radiologists’ ability to find discrepancies

The model has shown early promise, producing a five-fold increase in radiologists’ reported rate of finding significant errors. 

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Advocates concerned oncology payment model could leave radiologists in the cold

The American College of Radiology believes a potential cancer care payment model is too “oncology centric,” and could push providers to select imaging services based on cost alone, rather than quality. 

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Fujifilm moves forward with $1.6B purchase of Tokyo-based rival Hitachi's imaging line

The camera and photocopier giant’s move would make it one of the largest imaging companies in the world, with scale to rival the big four.
 

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How one hospital bucked the trend to bolster its ranks of female radiologists

Attracting women into the radiology profession continues to be a challenge, but one Boston-based hospital may have found the secret sauce to reversing this trend.

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Poor image quality forces FDA to suspend mammography at imaging practice

A North Carolina radiology provider has stopped performing mammography screenings after technical concerns led to it losing accreditation for the service. 

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Targeting out-of-network radiologists, other specialties could cut healthcare spending by $40B

Yale University researchers recently made their pitch to address the practice of surprise medical billing in a new study, published Monday, Dec. 16, in Health Affairs

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.