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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GE Healthcare selling software units for $1.05B

GE Healthcare has announced it will sell its revenue cycle, ambulatory care and workforce management software units to private equity firm Veritas Capital for $1.05 billion, following earlier plans for General Electric to sell assets and rumors the entire company could be broken up.

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Latest ACR Appropriateness Criteria includes 3 new, 9 revised topics

The American College of Radiology (ACR) released the latest edition of its ACR Appropriateness Criteria on Monday, April 2, noting it has now been 25 years since the college released its first appropriateness criteria in 1993.

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Could grassroots marketing be the key to radiology education?

The future of radiology education could lie in a more personal approach to marketing, three medical experts are suggesting in this month’s edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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12 medical societies endorse new guidelines for stroke interventions

The Society of Intervention Radiology (SIR) and 11 other medical societies have endorsed revised guidelines for the nonsurgical, image-guided interventional treatment of acute ischemic stroke.

Using Facebook to develop your brand: 4 suggestions for radiologists

Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the United States, offers radiologists numerous ways to develop their brand, according to a new commentary published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Social media: An effective tool for teaching the world about radiology?

Social media, particularly flexible platforms like Facebook, could be changing the way free medical information is circulated worldwide, according to three Johns Hopkins University researchers.

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Children with ADHD have smaller brains than healthy peers

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have reduced brain volume, researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute have found. The fresh research continues to shed light on how ADHD functions as a biological and cognitive condition.

Most women want a biopsy if there is any chance of breast cancer

Two out of three women want a biopsy performed if a radiologist determines there is any chance of breast cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The authors also found that women overestimate the risk of breast cancer when follow-up imaging or biopsy is recommended for low-risk mammographic abnormalities.

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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.