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.

Intel, OHSU partner to battle cancer in a more personalized, efficient way

Along with the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, Intel has launched Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a service designed to enable providers and researchers to securely share genomic, imaging and clinical data among patients.

Care Management Technologies Announces New Client: Alliance Behavioral Healthcare

Care Management Technologies (CMT), a data-driven population health analytics company that specializes in behavioral health, today announced its newest client, Alliance Behavioral Healthcare.

AHA issues ICD-10 countdown checklist

With just over a month to go until the Oct. 1 ICD-10 deadline, the American Hospital Association has released a checklist of key steps that hospitals should take to ensure a successful transition.

NLP market to jump to $2.67B by 2020

The global market for natural language processing is projected to reach $2.67 billion by 2020, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. 

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Medicare’s 3-day hospital stay better off waived: analysis

Medicare has long required a three-day hospital stay before it will pick up the tab for a senior to move into a skilled nursing facility. A new data crunch shows that waiving this prerequisite shortens costly and risky hospital stays—without driving up admissions to skilled nursing facilities or lengthening stays therein.

CMS expands bundled payment initiative

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service is ramping up its Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative with the addition of hundreds of providers.

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QM task force focuses on decision support, MU

In response to its charge to provide a set of recommendations regarding clinical quality measurement (CQM) provisions in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services payment rules, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Quality Measurement Task Force focused on three areas.

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Rumor confirmed: GE sells its healthcare-lending biz to Capital One for $9B

Hospitals, retirement homes and makers of medical devices are among the healthcare organizations and businesses that may now consider calling Capital One, long known primarily as a credit-card company, when they want to borrow big bucks.

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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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