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.

The brightest young leaders in healthcare

Forbes has unveiled its annual list of the best-and-brighest in healthcare and science.

Harvard feels consequences of own ideas on healthcare reform

Harvard faculty are in an uproar over rising healthcare costs, even as the school's very own economists and health policy advisors had championed heathcare reform efforts, reports The New York Times. 

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Public quality reporting could lower hospital costs

More public reporting on quality could help bring down hospital costs, according to a new Health Affairs study, reports Modern Healthcare.

Accenture wins $563M federal contract

Accenture Federal Services has won a five-year, $563 million contract to continue its work on Healthcare.gov, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

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CMS announces ICD-10 testing, guidance

As of now, ICD-10 is a go for Oct. 1, 2015, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is helping stakeholders get ready, announcing an end-to-end testing period for providers and guidance for testing.

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Teaching hospitals take brunt of medical error penalties

Half of U.S. teaching hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for high rates of infection and medical errors.

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Details emerge on CHIME and KLAS partnership

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has formalized its partnership agreement with research firm KLAS Enterprises to accelerate industry performance and provide support to health IT leaders.

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CMS adds quality data to consumer sites

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional quality data to give patients and their families more information to inform their selection of a provider, according to an agency blog.

Around the web

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.