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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Is it time to redefine ‘overdiagnosis’?

As overdiagnosis is increasingly recognized in the realm of cancer care, the term itself might benefit from a simpler, standardized definition, a group of researchers argue in an Annals of Internal Medicine editorial published this June.

Surprising number of childhood cancer survivors not concerned about their future health

Many adult survivors of childhood cancer are not concerned about their future health or developing new cancers, according to a new study published in Cancer.

Woman awarded $15M after Indiana physician misses life-threatening tumor on CT

A federal jury awarded a patient and her husband $15 million after Carmel, Indiana, physicians reportedly failed to identify a life-threatening tumor during a CT scan, the Indianapolis Business Journal has reported.

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150-pound dinosaur skull gets CT scan for upcoming museum exhibition

It’s not every day that imaging equipment is used to scan a 68-million-year-old dinosaur skull, but that’s exactly what happened at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Anthem/AIM: Imaging programs can provide quality, affordable care to health-plan consumers

Here’s the thinking behind Anthem/AIM’s decision to steer certain advanced imaging procedures out of hospital settings.

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Good practice governance: 5 stumbling blocks and how to scale them

Presenting five ways to establish, implement and monitor policies for divvying up duties, doling out rewards and sharing decision-making.

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Rise of the athletic brain savers

Despite the excitement over a new blood test for brain injury, radiology has a long future as a key player in the war against sports concussions.

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Precision medicine saves a seat for imaging expertise

Genetics-based care nudges radiologists to shed their skin as discrete dispensers of diagnoses and grow as vital co-planners of treatment.

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.