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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Clinical Quality Improvement: Practitioners See Unlimited Applications for Imaging Informatics

Imaging informatics finds a new frontier in clinical quality improvement.

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Safety and High Reliability in the Hospital Radiology Department

Turning a radiology department into a high reliability organization requires leadership, teamwork, and a culture of safety.

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Standardization: An Answer to Three of Radiology’s Vexing Problems

Three organizations address the common problems of variation in protocols, the reporting of incidental findings, and radiation dose.

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Quality and Contract Negotiations: Putting a Price on Quality

As radiology wrestles to arrive at a meaningful definition of quality, some organizations are beginning to quantify and monetize excellence

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Innovate value capture

Many businesses do well at creating value, offering customers goods and services that both whet and satisfy an appetite for consumption.

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Rethinking Our Value Chain

Immediate opportunities exist in radiology to reduce cost, raise quality, and improve value.

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The Elusive Value-based Payment

As you define, measure, and innovate value in radiology, be sure to innovate value capture as well

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An administrator’s guide: Obtaining decision buy-in from a practice’s physician leadership

Zotec

Radiology business managers help practices thrive in our challenging health care climate. They possess a level of sophisticated business experience sought out by radiologists who are being forced to take time away from patient care to attend to the business responsibilities of the practice. However, a business manager who steps in to handle these duties and alleviate the pressure on physicians still needs to approach them to obtain buy-in on various major practice decisions. The larger the practice, the more daunting this task can appear. David Myrice, director of practice management for Zotec Partners, walks us through the important steps in obtaining radiologist buy-in on important practice decisions.

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