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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Beware of injurious culprits in the reading room

The evidence points to ergonomically incorrect elements that can bring on or worsen aches and pains.

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Academic ER coverage: Why fix what’s not broken?

When should radiology replace its resident-based overnight model with 24-hour attending coverage? Perhaps never.

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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?

Around the web

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

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