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.

Case study: Radiologists should be cautious when delivering 'bad news'

For patients, receiving the results of radiology reports can prove to be stressful experiences. The moment after the information is shared, they will either be breathing a sigh of relief—or the complete opposite. 

Carestream to Ship Its OnSight 3D Extremity System in December

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 10 — Carestream is accepting orders from healthcare providers across the globe and announced plans to begin shipping its OnSight 3D Extremity System (video link) in December.  

Zotec Partners Appoints Mark Fabian as Director of Business Development

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – (November 7, 2016) – Zotec Partners, LLC (Zotec), a leading provider of billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, is pleased to announce that Mark Fabian has taken a new position as director of business development. Fabian is a goal-oriented sales professional bringing more than two decades of experience building and maintaining accounts in highly competitive industries. In his new role with Zotec, he will hone his business development skills to deliver revenue cycle and practice management solutions to physician practices and health systems.

David A. Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D., Named New Editor of Radiology

OAK BROOK, Ill. (November 11, 2016) – The Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced today that David A. Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D., Ms.B., FAHA, FACR, will become editor of the journal  Radiology in January 2018.

RSNA announces new editor of Radiology

The Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), announced that David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD, MsB, will become the new editor of Radiology in January 2018.

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New technology allows radiology treatments to become more focused

A new technology, originally developed in 2012 to provide sensors that can tolerate extremely high radiation doses, has proven effective in particle therapy and has many advantages over x-ray photon therapy. 

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Siemens plans public listing for its $15 billion healthcare division

In a move it claims to strengthen its brand, Siemens AG announced its plan to publicly list its $15 billion healthcare division, Siemens Healthineers.

Grant awarded to explore gut-brain relationship in HIV-positive patients

Cristina Granziera, MD, PHD of Massachusetts General Hospital was granted $77,495 to study the gut-brain relationship in HIV-positive patients.

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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.