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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How We Do It: Volumetric Imaging in Pediatric Radiology

Since its very first days as a small pediatric hospital in Arizona, Phoenix Children’s has fostered a culture of ingenuity and invention.

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Private Equity and Radiology: The Bloom Is on the Rose

A wave of consolidation is sweeping over physician practice specialties and, by many indicators, radiology may be next. 

Engagement goes up as radiologist takes charge of practice’s Facebook account

Putting an actual radiologist in charge of a radiology practice’s social media efforts—as opposed to, say, someone in marketing—is one way to significantly improve radiologist-patient engagement, according to a recent case study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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A Dangerous Practice

Multiple minefields await the practice with careless compliance practices.

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The New Player

Added resources will be required in the new order—enter private equity.

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‘Mother’s Rooms’ provide comfort for employees, big savings for facilities

When mothers return to work after having children, they often face an issue that may never cross the mind of their male coworkers: finding a proper lactation facility. According to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, radiology departments and practices have ethical, legal and financial reasons to provide such facilities for employees.

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Managing Quality and Priorities in a Value-based World

Radiology is beginning the painstaking job of measuring, managing and demonstrating value

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The Value Broadcast: Marketing Your Worth to Hospital Clients

Hospital-based practices deploy innovative marketing to ensure that their value is recognized by hospital and health system leaders

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.