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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Justice Department steps into EHR vendor lawsuit

The U.S. Department of Justice has become involved in a lawsuit against electronic health record (EHR) vendor Modernizing Medicine.

 

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UnitedHealth to buy LHC Group in $5.4 billion deal

Home healthcare company LHC Group is being acquired by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurance providers, for a whopping $5.4 billion.

 

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AHA asks Congress to provide more COVID-19 funds

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked Congress to provide more financial relief as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

 

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3 takeaways on the large number of mergers and acquisitions in healthcare revenue cycle management and IT

Greenberg Advisors recently released its 2021 Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Update, which describes investment and M&A activity in the revenue cycle management (RCM) and healthcare IT (HCIT) sectors. 

AI-assisted document annotation and data labeling from the start-up ScienceIO is supposed to give providers a tool to turn documents into data. Documents are automatically labeled and users have the ability to edit them and add their own labels. The Annotate software is designed for healthcare records, protocols and papers and is more 20 times faster than manual labeling.

Mayo Clinic launching 4 startups with healthcare partners

Mayo Clinic’s immersive program for health tech startups has launched its initial cohort of companies, starting with four AI startups.

 

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5 steps to assess safety of a health system electronic health record 

Researchers with UTHealth Houston outlined five steps for clinicians to assess their electronic health records (EHR) using the CMS SAFER guidelines.

A cardiac CT scan being performed on a Cardiograph dedicated cardiac CT scanner at a Duly Health and Care outpatient clinic. Photo by Dave Fornell

VIDEO: Office-based cardiac CT and FFR-CT offer a new business model

In a new video, Evans Pap­pas, MD, and Sujith Kalathiveetil, MD, both of Duly Health and Care in suburban Chicago, explain the shift toward office-based cardiac CT evaluations and the role of FFR-CT. 

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Top 10 CEOs transforming healthcare

The U.S. healthcare system has been through the paces over the last few years, with leaders making transformational changes to their organizations to keep up and stay ahead.

 

Around the web

CMS finalized a significant policy change when it increased the Medicare payments hospitals receive for performing CCTA exams. What, exactly, does the update mean for cardiologists, billing specialists and other hospital employees?

Stryker, a global medtech company based out of Michigan, has kicked off 2025 with a bit of excitement. The company says Inari’s peripheral vascular portfolio is highly complementary to its own neurovascular portfolio.

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.