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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Radiologists may soon be expected to disclose errors, apologize to patients

Healthcare providers are working to communicate with patients about errors more and more, hoping that well-planned disclosure and apology processes can help limit legislative action and improve care. What is radiology’s role in this growing trend?

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Yes, mammograms could screen women for CVD—but not yet

Women with breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). According to a new analysis published in the European Journal of Radiology, this opens the door for mammograms to screen patients for both breast cancer and CVD at once.

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Autonomous Radiology Groups Join Forces Under ‘Unified’ Banner

Sponsored by Unified Radiology

Ten radiology practices from around the U.S. have formed a new MSO, aiming to secure independence for each member practice. Some of the groups are already seeing strong returns.

Siemens Healthineers to acquire Corindus Vascular Robotics for $1.1B

Siemens Medical Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Healthineers AG, has agreed to acquire Waltham, Massachusetts-based Corindus Vascular Robotics.

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No gadolinium necessary: Imaging technique IDs patients with CAD without contrast agent

A new imaging technique may be able to help identify patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) without the use of drugs or any contrast agents, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging.

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What it Takes to Walk the Talk on Value

Medical practices are increasingly pressured to showcase the details of their contribution to medicine. But radiology isn’t like most other medical specialties, is it?

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Focus on POCUS: Hey, Emergency Medicine and Radiology: Who’s in Charge Here?

Point-of-Care ultrasound is now routinely used wherever a patient in need happens to be. In the midst of it all, radiologists and ER doctors are looking for ways to collaborate rather than compete.

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2019 Radiology Salary Survey: What’s in Everyone Else’s Wallet?

Radiologists’ pay-raise rates are flat. Administrators are working hard to earn bonuses. Lots of technologists are looking for new opportunities, and few PACS pros are skimping on time off (but not many are overdoing it either). See the numbers behind the factoids in the tabulated results of the 2019 RBJ Salary Survey.

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.