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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With replacement shelved, regulations could decide ACA’s fate

The Republican-controlled House couldn’t pass a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, but if the goal is to weaken the law, the executive branch can do so all on its own.

Healthcare industry welcomes decision to yank ACA replacement bill

Groups representing physicians, family medicine and hospitals were pleased to see the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican-sponsored replacement to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), tabled before a scheduled House vote on March 24—even though it left plenty of uncertainty for insurance markets.

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Q&A: Wireless patient monitoring has mothers dancing for joy

Patient monitoring is starting even before the patient arrives, with Novii, mothers can sit, walk and even dance their way through labor while fetal heart rate is monitored wirelessly.

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ACA replacement bill pulled before House vote

In a victory for the major medical organizations opposed to it, a scheduled vote in the House on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was called off as Republican leaders failed to convince enough of their own members to support the plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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ACHE 2017: Inclusive culture in healthcare is more than 'checking boxes' on diversity

Most healthcare conferences these days seem to include sessions on promoting diversity in organizations and among leadership. Two Monday sessions at the American College of Healthcare Executives’ (ACHE) 2017 Congress in Chicago are taking a different aim to change how leaders think about diversity and focus on creating a “culture of inclusion.”

Improved pathogen detection with lab-on-a-chip

Lab-on-a-chip technology is advancing pathogen detection in individual samples, without the need for complex bulky equipment. Developed by Natalia Sandetskaya and colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy & Immunology in Leipzig, Germany, the prototype lab-on-a-chip automates the detection process within a single device. 

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D.C. hospital first to receive Joint Commission/AABB blood transfusion certification

The Joint Commission and the AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) has awarded its first Patient Blood Management Certification to MedStar-Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Hospitals holding off on expansion projects because of ACA uncertainty

With the ultimate fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and healthcare policy remaining a mystery under a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump, some U.S. hospitals have decided this isn’t the right time to take on big projects.

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Cardiovascular Business
Reimbursement update: What hospitals need to know about new Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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?

Cardiovascular Business
Stryker acquires Inari Medical for $4.9B

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.

Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

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