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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Q&A: Amy Patel on taking ‘diversity in radiology’ from airy catchphrase to concrete action

The first female chief resident in an all-male program shares her thoughts on how far women have come in radiology and how far they still have to go.

Is the eye the window to the brain? How gadolinium is changing the field of cerebrovascular imaging

Gadolinium could be doing a lot more for cerebrovascular patients than previously thought. According to a group of researchers at the National Institutes for Health, the chemical agent could highlight not just abnormalities in routine brain MRIs, but identify the severity of incident stroke.

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The changing faces of mentoring

If you aren’t enhancing a young rad’s raw talent right now—and figuring diversity into radiology’s future—you’re hurting your practice’s long-term outlook.

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No love lost for Anthem imaging policy

Anthem is forging ahead with its decision to push outpatient imaging out of hospitals. Is the insurance giant a pariah or a harbinger?

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Improving relationships between radiologists and referring physicians

Many loyal referrers can be counted on to send a steady stream of patients your way, but that can change fast when signals get crossed or decision support turns testy. 

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The elusive economics of enterprise imaging

What should radiology be expending, in manpower as well as money, to help make medical imaging accessible to and from every clinical department? And what’s in enterprise imaging for radiology, anyway?

Michigan State suspends radiology chair in wake of Larry Nassar scandal

Michigan State University (MSU) has suspended its chair of radiology as it continues to deal with the aftermath of former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar being sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for criminal sexual conduct.

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Population-based cancer screenings could save thousands of lives, millions of dollars

Cancer screenings at the population level—rather than on an individual basis based on family history—could save thousands of lives and reduce costs, researchers reported this week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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.