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.

Med journal editors outline data sharing plan for clinical trials

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has proposed a set of clinical data sharing requirements that must be met before trial results will be considered for publication in their member journals.

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Australian rad explains the profession he loves in Q&A

Among the general public, the greatest misconception about radiologists is that they don’t exist. 

Striking a balance: Researchers find creative solutions to radiation dose dilemma

It’s one of the primary goals at the heart of patient safety in radiology: balancing the need for heightened image quality with the inherent risks of radiation exposure. It’s also a goal that prompted researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School to develop some simple yet creative radiation-dose solutions.

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Provider shares wiki strategy for CT protocol management

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has about 300 different CT protocols in routine clinical use, which presents quite the management challenge. Researchers there tackled the issue with a wiki-based tool, and took to the pages of the Journal of the American College of Radiology to explain their strategy.

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From accomplished skier to inspired interventional radiologist

J. Dana Dunleavy, MD, is an interventional radiologist who loves what he does for a living. 

Survey: Female med students cite lack of patient contact for deciding against radiology

A perceived lack of direct patient contact makes female medical students five times less likely to choose radiology as a specialty than their male counterparts, according to the results of a Canadian study published online Jan. 13 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Non-disastrous water damage halts imaging workflow, serves as reminder

A sprinkler went on the fritz at an imaging center in upstate New York Jan. 7. The fail wasn’t epic by any means, but it was enough to shut down the center’s MR and CT schedule for several days—and to remind radiology workers to be ready for anything

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As an imaging cost-cutter, high-deductible insurance may be a ‘blunt instrument’

As a way to cut overall imaging utilization and spending, increased patient cost-sharing via high-deductible health insurance seems to work. But the approach may not do much to help patients tell medically recommended exams from frequently wasteful ones. 

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.