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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AdvaMed itemizes AI imperatives for ‘the entire healthcare ecosystem’

If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do. 

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Cardinal Health scoops up two companies for $3.9B

Cardinal Health is buying Advanced Diabetes Supply Group and a majority stake in GI Alliance, expanding its broad patient services portfolio. 

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UnitedHealth defends $3.3B Amedisys acquisition

UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum is turning to the court of public opinion to defend the merger. 

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Ransomware group deploys ticking clock to threaten Georgia hospital

Memorial Hospital and Manor announced the data breach through Facebook on Nov. 3. The cybercrime group Embargo has taken credit for the incident, claiming to have 1.15TB of stolen information. 

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DOJ sues to block UnitedHealth’s $3.3B acquisition of home health giant

The DOJ met with UnitedHealth execs in an attempt to resolve antitrust concerns out of court, but those talks stalled, a report claims. 

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6 things high-achieving orgs do to wring real value from AI

What makes an organization an AI leader? Demonstrating success in one of two pursuits. 

Atrium Health to train Ukrainian clinicians at Charlotte hospital

Atrium Health Carolina Rehabilitation is partnering with Unbroken, an organization working to improve rehabilitation services in war-torn Ukraine. The series of visits to North Carolina will begin next year.

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Private equity firm to buy Summa Health for $485M

HATco, part of General Catalyst, is set to purchase the Ohio-based health system, which currently has roughly $850 million in debt on its balance sheet. 

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Nat’l Academy of Medicine sets ‘priorities for action’ as healthcare mulls next moves with AI

Given the precarious excitement of the moment—or is it exciting precarity?—policymakers and healthcare leaders must set directives guiding not only what to do with AI but also when to do it. 

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Biden chooses semaglutide for next round of Medicare price negotiations—Trump gets final say

The final list also included diabetes drugs sold by Boehringer Ingelheim and Merck. The first round of drug price negotiations reduced the Medicare prices for 10 popular drugs by up to 79%. 

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4 ways HHS plans to help shape a national strategy for healthcare AI

HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.