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.

New Data Shows MedTech Industry Poised for Greater Investment & Growth with Full Device Tax Repeal

Another Suspension of Disruptive Tax Won’t Have Same Economic Impact

Children's toy inspires powerless centrifuge for malaria tests

In rural area with no access to electricity, Manu Prakash saw a centrifuge being used as a doorstop. Walking around the village he noticed children playing with a paper and string toy and a lifesaving idea popped into his head.

WellCare Names Timothy Trodden Chief Human Resources Officer

Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans has named Johnson & Johnson's Timothy Trodden its new chief human resources officer. 

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Burwell’s final speech as HHS Secretary: ‘In healthcare, there is no free lunch’

In what was billed as HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell’s farewell speech, she criticized several proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), while challenging the Republican majorities to introduce a replacement plan if they plan to quick repeal the law.

Performance measures cut costs, improve care in warfarin patients

Not having set guidelines for managing patients on warfarin is costing hospitals and physicians a fortune. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have developed new performance measures to help these clinicians improve the management of patients on warfarin. 

Court to decide whether Illinois nonprofit hospitals have to pay property tax

The Illinois Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals in the state.

Health Care Leaders Convene in Colorado to Discuss Recommended Actions to Solve Nation’s Primary Care Crisis

“Critical Conversation” on Transforming Primary Care System via Enhanced Role for RNs to be Held at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on January 12

Patient safety indicators need to be optimized

A link between patient safety indicators (PSIs) and patient outcomes can be found—but only after researchers went deeper than claims data would allow and questioned the accuracy of billing based on PSIs.

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Updated compensation data includes good news for multiple subspecialties. The new report also examines private equity's impact on employment models and how much male cardiologists earn compared to females.

When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

If passed, this bill would help clinician-led clinical registries explore Medicare data for research purposes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American College of Cardiology both shared public support for the bipartisan legislation. 

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