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.

Prime Medical's Chlorine-Shielded Textiles Now Available to 44 Hospitals in Illucient Purchasing Alliance

Prime Medical, the exclusive manufacturer of chlorine-shielded privacy curtains, apparel and bed linens for healthcare, announced today it has joined the Illucient Purchasing Alliance, and will now be available to the 44 member hospitals throughout North Carolina and South Carolina that utilize the aggregated purchasing power of the Illucient Portfolio for negotiated discounts for their facility's supply chain needs.

It may be too late to stabilize ACA markets for 2018

The stalling of Republican efforts to repeal and/or replace the Affordable Care Act has led to renewed talks of short-term measures to keep premiums down and keep insurers from leaving ACA exchanges, but those measures may be coming too late.

Pharma exec Martin Shkreli found guilty of securities fraud

Martin Shkreli, the founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and Retrophin, was found guilty of three criminal counts related to securities fraud.

Execs confident in population health strategy

More than two-thirds (68 percent) of healthcare executives responding to a Health Catalyst survey said population health management (PHM) is “very important” to their healthcare delivery strategy over the next two years. When it comes to having more patients covered through risk-based PHM contracts, however, organizations want more time.

Insurance startup Oscar hires CCO from Advisory Board

Oscar Insurance, a startup insurer specializing in narrow network plans offered on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, has hired Dennis Weaver, MD, MBA, as its new chief clinical officer (CCO).

Thumbnail

Senate passes ‘right-to-try’ bill which critics call ‘deceptive’ to terminal patients

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on Aug. 3 which would allow terminally ill patients the “right to try” experimental treatments that haven’t yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but critics say it gives patients false hope without allowing for federal oversight.

Thumbnail

OCR pushes for employee education to improve cybersecurity

Having a strong first line of defense is key in any battle—and the same goes for the fight for cybersecurity. A recent newsletter released by HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) urges healthcare organizations to arm their employees with knowledge in order to prevent cyberattacks.

Thumbnail

Senate passes FDA user fee reauthorization

By an easy vote of 94-1, the Senate passed the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, approving the user fee agreements paid by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to the Food and Drug Administration.

Around the web

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.

Philips is recalling the software associated with its Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry devices after certain high-risk ECG events were never routed to trained cardiology technicians as intended. The issue, which lasted for two years, has been linked to more than 100 injuries. 

Heart Rhythm Society President Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, detailed a new advocacy group focused on improving EP reimbursements, patient care and access. “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu," he said.