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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The Path to Patient-Centered Radiology

The specialty is on multiple tracks to implementing patient-centered care in radiology

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Fail Thee Well

Although there is no shortage of maxims, axioms and old adages supporting the wisdom to be found in failure, few organizations succeed in mining a flop for the value it confers.

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Outcomes Metrics: The Ultimate Quest for Quality in Radiology

Radiological and patient outcomes are under review as the specialty strives to define, demonstrate and measure its value in patient care

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21st Century Patient Communications Protocols

New information technologies could change the process of communicating with patients and generating reports

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To Err at the Outset

The diagnostic process receives well-deserved attention from the Institute of Medicine

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Notes from the Weissleder Lab: Exploring the Frontier of Precision Imaging for Nanotherapeutics

Over the course of his career, Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD, has blazed trails from macroscopic to microscopic imaging and back in pursuit of better imaging methods for nanotherapeutics

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Meaningful Use at Five

Recent legislation assures that it will be an enduring—as well as evolving—program

$270 million deal between Mallinckrodt, Guerbet completed

Mallinckrodt announced this week that the sale of its contrast media and delivery systems (CMDS) business to Guerbet has officially been closed. The transaction, which was first announced in July 2015, is valued at approximately $270 million. 

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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.