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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Frank Lexa, MD, MBA: 5 steps to successful change management

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How do you lead change—even when you’re not in charge? The answer to that question is both simpler and subtler than one might think, and it’s readily applicable to radiologists, radiology business managers, radiology technologists and everyone else within the sphere of medical imaging.

Kanteron Systems USA taps Merge's Memarian for president, chief commercial officer

Kanteron Systems USA announced this week that John Memarian will be joining the workflow management company as president and chief commercial officer. Memarian is currently the president of international businesses at Merge Healthcare, which was acquired by IBM last year for $1 billion. 

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Sleeping at Night: Cybersecurity, Patient Safety and the Radiology Department

No less than the Federal Bureau of Investigation put the healthcare industry on alert after a 2014 report1 revealed that at least 375 U.S. healthcare-related organizations had been breached by hackers between September 2012 and October 2013—some unwittingly.

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A Social Media Presence for Your Practice: Why, How, Now

Recognizing that he had some hard, social media-phobic cases from the baby boom generation in the room, C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, pediatric interventional radiologist, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, and widely acknowledged social media expert, first tried to set his subjects at ease.

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Mid-Atlantic imaging entrepreneur convicted of fatal fraud-related crimes

The owner of a Maryland imaging center is facing a possible life sentence for two counts of healthcare fraud, death resulting, as well as multi-year sentences for other charges.

AHRA: CMS to release updated billing guidance for low-dose CT lung cancer screening

Expanded ICD-10 codes for billing for low-dose CT lung cancer screening for individuals who smoke or have a history of smoking are on their way, according to the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA).

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Radiology’s Best Days

Enough about the good old days—look ahead with new eyes

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Hospital Hookups: Implications for Imaging IT

Health systems and practices are scrambling to create cogent imaging informatics solutions in the face of hospital consolidation 

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

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

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.