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.

Six leading U.S. providers to share data to improve care, lower costs

Six of the nation's leading healthcare systemsCleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Mayo Clinic will join the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in a collaboration to improve healthcare quality while reducing costs.

RSNA: The end of the information ageor just the beginning

With the help of progressive managers and IT pros, radiology and other specialties can leave the information age behind and start leveraging data to make models and predictions, empowering medical practices to enter the age of analytics, according to a presentation given Nov. 29 at the 96th annual scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Senate moves to prevent Medicare cuts for another year

By unanimous consent, the U.S. Senate has passed legislation that averts a 25 percent Medicare payment cut to physicians that was scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2011.

PwC: Hospitals and docs need to get over trust issues

Health reform will require hospitals and physicians to engage in more intense levels of collaboration and information sharing; however, both groups must overcome trust and IT issues, according to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

HHS issues health IT challenge as part of disease prevention agenda

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled Healthy People 2020, the new 10-year goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention in the U.S., and myHealthyPeople, a new challenge for technology application developers.

Orion Health updates HIE

Orion Health has added a modular suite of components to its health information exchange (HIE) tools, allowing healthcare organizations to customize their exchanges.

REACH3 offers web-based CRM tools

REACH3 has launched Health e-Strategy customer relationship management (CRM) software to enable health systems to engage patients online via the web, email and social networks.

AHA pushes CMS for flexibility on ACOs

In a letter last week to Jonathan D. Blum, deputy director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American Hospital Association (AHA) asked for clarity on accountable care organization (ACO) implementation and cost savings for healthcare delivery, particularly in Medicare.

Around the web

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.

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. 

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.