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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50 factoids illuminate key drivers of healthcare costs

The prices hospitals set for a series of common procedures increased by more than 10% between 2011 and 2013. That’s a faster surge than the rate of inflation—and it’s just one of 50 “things to know about healthcare costs” as spotlighted in a mid-year report from Becker’s Hospital CFO.

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Woes and Wars at Work

When there is conflict and tension at work, do you fight, take flight or let it fester?

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Seeking certainty in radiology: Mergers, acquisitions and alternatives

Imagine if you could image the future. You’d see the exact path your radiology group must take to protect, and expand, its business. You’d be safe, secure and satisfied.

House votes to repeal controversial device tax

The House has voted, 280-140, in favor of repealing a 2.3% tax on medical devices. H.R. 160, the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015, passed with votes from every present Republican and 46 Democrats.   

Multidisciplinary panel provides guidance on elastography for liver fibrosis

The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) convened a panel of specialists last October to discuss the use of elastography for liver fibrosis, summarizing its findings in a consensus statement published in Radiology. 

Fix boring board meetings by engaging attendees, staying on schedule

Tired of looking around the room at board meetings and feeling like nobody wants to be there? Those meetings can be more interesting and engaging, according to a recent web-exclusive article published by Trustee. 

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Fujifilm CEO pens book on ‘innovating out of crisis’

Healthcare managers challenged to adjust to the foundational changes transforming their industry might do well to take a page—literally—from a titan of the consumer business world. 

Alliance Radiology and Alliance Oncology receive multiple Avatar Patient Experience & Satisfaction Awards

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc. (AIQ), a leading national provider of outsourced healthcare services, announces that its divisions, Alliance Radiology & Alliance Oncology, have received four Avatar Patient Experience Awards for industry-leading patient satisfaction, quality and innovative approaches to transforming the patient experience.

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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.