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.

Time Medical releases new HTS MRI coil

Scientists from Columbia University, Harvard Medical School and the University of Hong Kong have created a high temperature superconductor (HTS) coil for MRI systems.

3D MRI technique helps detect high-risk carotid disease

Canadian researchers have used 3D MRI to accurately detect bleeding within the walls of diseased carotid arteries, suggesting the technique may prove to be a useful screening tool for patients at high risk for stroke, according to a study published in the October issue of Radiology.

MRI bests CT in identifying soft-tissue inner ear defects in children

Using MRI, physicians can identify soft-tissue defects that contribute to hearing loss in children, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.

GE, Varian to develop pre-clinical 7T MRI system

GE Healthcare and Varian will begin a collaboration to develop a new pre-clinical 7T MRI system.

MRI offers new marker for raised intracranial pressure

MRI measurements of the thickness of the optic nerve sheath are a goodmarker for raised intracranial pressure (ICP), according to researchpublished Thursday in BioMed Central’s open-access journal Critical Care.

Report: Not a lot of progress for EHR adoption

More than three years after President George W. Bush called for all Americans to have EHRs by 2014, a new California HealthCare Foundation report suggests that there has been no measurable increase in health IT adoption.

Report: Not a lot of progress for EHR adoption

More than three years after President George W. Bush called for all Americans to have EHRs by 2014, a new California HealthCare Foundation report suggests that there has been no measurable increase in health IT adoption.

MRI highly sensitive in detecting breast cancer

MR imaging of the breast has high sensitivity and lower specificity forthe detection of breast cancer in patients with breast lesions,according to a study published in the January issue of Radiology.

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that outlines some of the organization’s central priorities and concerns. 

One product is being pulled from the market, and the other is receiving updated instructions for use.

If the Trump administration continues taking a laissez-faire stance toward AI—including AI used in healthcare—why not let the states go it alone on regulating the technology?