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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3 effective recruitment strategies for lung cancer screening programs

Clinical low-dose CT (LDCT) screening programs throughout the nation have struggled in recent years to significantly increase screening utilization. What can be done to finally reverse this trend?

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Students should be learning more about radiation oncology in med school

Radiation oncologists should be more directly involved in the formal education of medical students, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

ACR offering summer internships to underrepresented minority med students

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is partnering with Nth Dimensions, an educational non-profit organization determined to increase diversity, to offer five summer internships in an effort to introduce women and underrepresented minority medical students to radiological specialties.

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FNA-B performs better than PET-CT when imaging small pulmonary nodules

CT-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies (FNA-Bs) have a higher sensitivity and diagnostic accuracy than PET-CT when imaging pulmonary nodules 8 mm or smaller, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Radiologists welcome direct interactions with patients

A majority of radiologists welcome more direct contact with patients and rarely consider patient interaction detrimental to workflow, according to a new study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Judge weighing options in radiologist’s lawsuit against Duke, UNC

Progress is being made in a radiologist’s lawsuit filed against Duke University and the University of North Carolina, which alleges the schools have a secret agreement not to hire professors away from one another.

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4 important lessons about design planning in radiology

Many radiologists want to contribute to design planning of hospitals or imaging centers, but they lack formal design training and feel they can contribute very little to design planning.

NFL to include neurotrauma consultants in amended concussion protocol

The National Football League (NFL)'s concussion protocol was recently amended to include a central unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant (UNC) for all games. This development comes as on-field incidents have generated discussion about the league's handling of concussions.

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.