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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What can radiologists do to avoid malpractice claims?

The Cooperative of American Physicians (CAP) has released a new data study that explores factors commonly associated with diagnostic errors in radiology and suggests ways practices can improve patient care while avoiding malpractice claims.

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Strategic Radiology welcomes its first member practice from Wisconsin

Strategic Radiology announced Radiology Associates of Appleton (RAA) has joined its coalition of independent radiology practices. The Appleton, Wisconsin-based practice is Strategic Radiology’s first member practice from the Badger State.

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RSNA 2018: How to get your research published in a major radiology journal

What does it take to get your research published in a major radiology journal? David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief of RSNA's Radiology journal, shared some advice with attendees Wednesday, Nov. 28, at RSNA 2018 in Chicago.

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RSNA 2018: 3 ways to improve personal productivity

Radiologist Puneet Bhargava, MD, spoke Wednesday, Nov. 28, at RSNA 2018 in Chicago about how to enhance personal productivity.

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RSNA 2018: Attendees share what brought them to the big show

Taken by the numbers, the population at RSNA 2018 isn’t hard to get a handle on. A pre-conference survey showed the largest three cohorts by job title to be radiology administrators (29.3 percent), technologists (19.5 percent) and radiologists (17.7 percent). That’s all interesting enough, but numbers don’t talk. People do.

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Women occupy just 14% of leadership roles in academic radiology

Female radiologists continue to be underrepresented in academic and leadership roles compared to their male counterparts, researchers reported this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Prenatal US detects brain abnormalities in fetuses exposed to Zika virus

In a cohort of 82 pregnant women with the Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, prenatal ultrasound (US) was able to detect all fetal brain abnormalities but one. Results from the study were published in JAMA Pediatrics.

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Mail-in HPV screening kits help prevent cervical cancer in hard-to-reach women

A new pilot study has concluded hard-to-reach women are more likely to take preventive steps against cervical cancer when they’re mailed at-home human papillomavirus (HPV) screening kits as a first step.

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