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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RSNA Announces Spotlight Course in Emergency Radiology

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) will offer its first regional course later this year in Mexico. RSNA Spotlight: Radiología de Urgencias: Curso Interactivo con Casos Mexico 2016 will be held June 2 to 4, 2016, at the Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Cancún Resort & Spa in Cancún, Mexico.

ACR 2016: Influential patient advocate to deliver annual Moreton Lecture

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week that patient advocate Andy DeLaO is scheduled to deliver the Moreton Lecture at ACR 2016 in Washington, D.C. DeLaO—also known online as @CancerGeek—is expected to discuss ways physicians can add value to a patient’s medical experience. 

GE Healthcare moves headquarters to Chicago

GE Healthcare announced on Jan. 12 that it would move its headquarters to Chicago effective in early 2016. The headquarters are currently in Amersham, United Kingdom.

Infinx, Canopy Partners working together to fix ICD-10 coding issues

Infinx announced this week that it is collaborating with Canopy Partners to assist the radiology market with handling ICD-10 coding issues. 

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USPSTF publishes final breast cancer screening recommendations, organizations react

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published its final breast cancer screening recommendations this week, officially giving biennial mammograms for women ages 50 to 74 a “B” grade.

SHINE Medical Technologies founder honored by University of Wisconsin-Madison

Greg Piefer, PhD, founder and CEO of SHINE Medical Technologies, has been awarded the Early-Career Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering.

Director of rad department, others still inside hospital during attempted demolition

Doctors, including the director of the hospital’s radiology department, were treating patients like normal when the bulldozer tore through the wall of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan Province’s Zhengzhou City.

Canadian radiologist files human rights complaint against Central Health

A Canadian radiologist has filed a human rights complaint after she says she was let go from her job while in the late stages of pregnancy. Michelle Ong, MD, was 35 weeks pregnant when she questioned something that was impacting patients, and the next thing she knew, she was told her position had been terminated.

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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.