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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Mammography utilization down among younger women—even those with a history of breast cancer

Mammography screening is down among younger women since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its breast cancer screening guidelines in November 2009, according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery. This includes women with a history of breast cancer.

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Beyond Busting Burnout: Lessons on Radiologist Wellbeing from Positive Psychology

Many radiologists are functioning well by most standards but are nowhere near their potential level of fulfillment. So how can we reach our highest potential by applying positive psychology?

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Terms of Patient Engagement: Insights From Practices Pursuing Stronger Relationships with Patients Across 4 Care Settings

Insights from radiology practices and departments working hard to build better relationships with the people who matter most.

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ICD-10's Mixed Bag for Medical Imaging

The preparation period was long. Hopes and fears were high. Three years into the ICD-10 era, how is radiology’s day-to-day implementation stacking up against those early expectations and prognostications? (And is ICD-11 already in the works … really?)

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Australian hospital outsourcing all CT exams due to staffing mishap

Canberra Hospital in Canberra, Australia, was forced to outsource all inpatient CT exams to an external provider for a full week due to “an unplanned leave” within the radiology department

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Promotion in Motion: Under Pressure to Behave More Like a Business Than Ever Before, Radiology Gets on Board with Modern Marketing

There’s nothing wrong with strategically courting attention. Besides, marketing is a means of informing—and that’s an activity that provides real value to patients and referrers.

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Lung cancer screening using Lung-RADS reduces false-positive rate in a diverse, underserved setting

When the American College of Radiology (ACR) published the Lung CT Screening Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS) in 2014, one of its goals was producing a lower false-positive rate than the 23.3 percent reported by the National Cancer Institute’s National Lung Screening Trial (NLST).

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Politically Energized With Places to Go: 5 Advocacy Hot Buttons for Radiology

Between 2003 and 2016, radiologists gave more than $16 million to political bodies. Here are some causes worthy of every rad’s support, regardless of party affiliation.

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.