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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CBO forecasts 29.4% cut in Medicare rate

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has projected that, under the current law, Medicare payment rates for physician services will be reduced by 29.4 percent in 2012.

JAMIA: Handle EHR data exceptions with care

Exception situations can enable clinicians to get around the limitations of structured data during clinical documentation in an EHR but must be handled carefully to avoid errors, according to a case report published online June 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

HIMSS Webinar: IBMs Watson to bring NLP to healthcare

IBMs Watson technology, which embeds natural language processing (NLP) technology, is primed to transform healthcare by converting unstructured information into actionable data and presenting it to decision makers in a dashboard view.

JAMA commentary: Beware surveillance bias

Although there is a trend toward accountability and standards, attention needs to be given to the quality of measurement tools, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in a commentary published in the June 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Precyse, HealthStream offer ICD-10 education

Health information management services provider Precyse and HealthStream, a provider of healthcare learning and research tools, have partnered to deliver ICD-10 education program for providers in healthcare.

JAMA: Ambulatory, inpatient malpractice rates are similar

In 2009, the number of malpractice claims for events in inpatient and outpatient settings that resulted in payments were similar, and the rate of paid claims in both settings declined overall, according to a study in the June 15 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association.

RWJF recommends adjustments to proposed ACO rule

Accountable care should have, at a minimum, a focus on patients and consumers, timely and widely available data, collaborative teams and a reformed payment scheme, and should promote population health and monitor for racial, ethnic and language-related health and healthcare disparities, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

JAMIA: Team approach boosts IT adoption

Evidence suggests that when carefully implemented, health IT has a positive impact on behavior, as well as operational, process and clinical outcomes, stated researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in a case report published online June 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Cardiovascular Business
FDA says years-long tirzepatide shortage is resolved, will give limited leeway to compounders

The tirzepatide shortage that first began in 2022 has been resolved. Drug companies distributing compounded versions of the popular drug now have two to three more months to distribute their remaining supply.

AI in Healthcare
From Capitol Hill to a hospital near you? 5 federal recommendations for healthcare AI policy

The 24 members of the House Task Force on AI—12 reps from each party—have posted a 253-page report detailing their bipartisan vision for encouraging innovation while minimizing risks. 

Cardiovascular Business
Merck spends up to $2B to license new weight loss drug with potential heart benefits

Merck sent Hansoh Pharma, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, an upfront payment of $112 million to license a new investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist. There could be many more payments to come if certain milestones are met.