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.

EVDI Medical Imaging hires 4 new radiologists

EVDI Medical Imaging, an imaging provider with six locations in the greater Phoenix area, announced this week it had added four radiologists to its team.

RBMA announces winners of marketing awards

The Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) announced the winners of its 11th annual 2016 Quest Awards this week, with Charlotte Radiology taking home the People’s Choice Award.

AHRA Award for Excellence nomination deadline coming soon

The deadline to nominate someone to be a recipient of an AHRA Award for Excellence is coming up soon; do you know who you’ll be nominating? 

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Ensuring future success: 3 ways radiology residents can provide more value

The American Alliance of Academic Chief Residents in Radiology (A3CR2) recently met in New Orleans, and their discussion could prove to have a significant impact on an entire generation of young radiologists.

GE holding on to life-science operations

Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s chairman and CEO, has been busy reshaping the company so that it revolves more around heavy industry, but there appear to be no current plans to sell GE’s life-sciences business.

Zotec Partners announces new deal with Toledo Radiological Associates

Zotec Partners, a medical billing and practice management company based out of Indianapolis, has announced a management agreement with Toledo Radiological Associates (TRA), a radiology practice that has been serving Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan for almost 90 years. 

Physician shares concern about patients' overall happiness

A recent study determined that unhappiness was not an independent predictor of increased mortality, but one physician wrote in the New York Times that she remains concerned about her patients’ happiness and the impact it could potentially have on their health.

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Most prevention and screening guidelines skirt the details on harms, benefits

Guidelines for cancer prevention and screening are “ideally suited” for explaining the benefits and harms of medical interventions, but according to a recent study published by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a majority of these statements do an insufficient job of providing such insight.

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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.