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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Radiologists produce imitation PET scans via routine CT imaging

“With further tuning and validation, this pipeline may potentially add value in cancer screening, staging, diagnosis and prognosis," experts wrote in Cell Reports Medicine.  
 

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Judge denies radiology group’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit over $177M sale of the practice

Technologist Robert Harrison and his attorneys filed the complaint in 2021, charging that shareholders grossly overpaid in the deal, among other contentions

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Powering down interventional imaging systems saves tens of thousands in electricity costs

Making the hypothetical adjustment of switching all idle systems to off overnight and on weekends would save one hospital about $38,000. 
 

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Nearly 15% of claims submitted to private payers are initially denied

Private payers eventually overturned more than half of denials, with the claims paid, but only after “multiple, costly rounds of provider appeals.” 

Going green in the cath lab makes economic sense

New research explored the potential savings of turning off angiography systems at night and on weekends.

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Medical image-sharing startup PocketHealth raises $33M in series B financing

Round13 Capital and the investment arms of Samsung and Deloitte all pitched in, with the company using the money to double its workforce within the next two years.

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Deep learning-based MRI reconstruction software produces considerable cost savings

Oulu University Hospital believes AI will allow it to deliver the same level of service with one fewer scanner, enabling annual savings of over $436,000.

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US Radiology Specialists names new leader as founding CEO departs

Lee Cooper will take the reins at the private equity-backed practice on April 1 after previously spending nearly 30 years with GE. 

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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.