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.

Healthcare management platform Spreemo announces new VP

Spreemo, a New York-based Healthcare management platform, announced this week it has named Daniel Elgort, PhD, its new vice president of healthcare analytics. 

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Infographic: Inside the healthcare construction boom

Expansions, renovations, brand-new facilities—the healthcare construction boom is underway, and providers across the country are getting in on the action.

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Government Accountability Office finds flaws in FDA's methods

According to a new 42-page report published by investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are significant flaws in the way the FDA tracks drugs after they come to market. 

Supreme Court won't hear Medtronic case

Caplinger v. Medtronic Inc., the lawsuit in which a patient accused Medtronic of allowing doctors to use its INFUSE Bone Graft product in ways not approved by the FDA, made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Court announced it has declined to hear the case. 

GE set to move HQ to Boston

General Electric has chosen Boston as its new global headquarters, according to the Boston Globe.

Nonprofit hospitals under the taxman’s magnifying glass

Nonprofit hospitals getting challenged on their tax-exempt status have been much in the news of late.  

AMA: Chronic disease impacting healthcare infrastructure

Despite the exciting changes in the evolving healthcare market, there is an overarching drive that will dictate the direction of innovation: the shifting nature of disease burden itself, said James L. Madara, MD, CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association.

Slavitt shares CMS implementation goals for 2016

Successfully achieving change in healthcare is 90 percent about implementation, said Andy Slavitt, acting director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaking at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

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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.