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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MPT completes 5-hospital sale to Prime Healthcare

Included in the real estate exchange is St. Francis Medical Center in California and Saint Clare's Health network of acute and behavioral facilities in New Jersey.

April 11, 2024
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Payments to FDA advisory panel questioned

A recent investigation from KFF Health News about payments to members of an FDA panel evaluating an Abbott Laboratories cardiac device is raising eyebrows.

April 11, 2024
healthcare AI code of conduct

Submitted for consideration by all healthcare AI stakeholders: 10 principles, 6 commitments, 1 direction

Key collaborators across the healthcare AI life cycle now have a common set of principles to which they can hold each other. And that means everyone from developers and researchers to providers, regulators and even patients.

April 11, 2024
CMS drug price negotiations

Drug price dialogues represent ‘an opportunity for CMS to clarify negotiation policies and their potential impact for the future’

CMS must ensure transparency, clarity and predictability by providing detailed guidance on comparator drug selection and the evaluation of evidence, according to a group of D.C.-based health policy researchers.

April 9, 2024
New York Times artificial intelligence training data

The well for AI training data is running dry. Big Tech heavyweights are taking extraordinary measures to deal with the drought.

Bumping up hard against the reality of depleted data sources, three of AI’s top players have been acting like they’ve had no choice but to consider cutting corners.

April 9, 2024
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How teaching hospitals can recover fiscal fitness

Two-fifths of leaders at academic medical centers, 41%, see reducing average length of patient stay as far and away the No. 1 “most untapped” strategy to turn around falling operating margins.

April 8, 2024
Money dollar investments

Johnson & Johnson to acquire Shockwave Medical for $13.1B

The rumors, it seems, were true. Once the deal is finalized, Shockwave Medical will operate as a business unit within Johnson & Johnson MedTech.

April 5, 2024

CVS expanding tuition, scholarship programs for pharmacists

CVS points out that, in pharmacy schools specifically, applications have decreased by more than 60% in less than a decade.

April 4, 2024

Around the web

This week Washington took a major step toward nailing down a solid game plan on federal AI spending for everything outside of defense.

The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

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