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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Short-term health plans expansion upheld in court

The Trump administration’s expansion of short-term limited-duration health plans has held up in court after a legal challenge.

Democratic primary focuses on healthcare

The healthcare debate has moved into the limelight as the Democratic presidential primary race heats up.

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Merger talks are over for Care New England, Lifespan

Merger talks between Care New England, one of the largest healthcare systems in Rhode Island, Brown University and Lifespan, operator of Rhode Island Hospital, are over.

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Open for input: AI in Healthcare 2019 Leadership Survey

Seeking to gather and share data on the state of AI in healthcare, AI in Healthcare has opened its inaugural leadership survey. Questions cover how healthcare organizations are paying for AI, whether they’re buying or building their AI-enabled solutions, where AI’s potential is already being realized—and more. Take the survey.

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Tech investors award AI startups that are reinventing work

Over the last six years, Dell Technologies Capital has plunked down more than $600 million to invest in startups focused on accelerating the “reinventing work” evolution. Microsoft’s M12 venture fund has shown similar enthusiasm.

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3 keys to patient-physician trust in the age of AI

Often lost in discussions about AI’s unfolding impact on healthcare is its uncertain effect on patient-physician relationships. The authors of an opinion piece published July 15 in JAMA take up a key question underlying this lack.

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85,000 Kaiser workers prepare to strike over contract talks

More than 85,000 workers from Kaiser Permanente are preparing a national strike after contract negotiations stalled July 12. Talks between the workers and the nonprofit healthcare company ended Thursday without a deal.

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3 great minds agree: AI is changing everything

Three distinguished thinkers who think a lot on the future are asking some big questions about AI.

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.