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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CMS to issue draft ACO regulations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expected to publish draft regulations to revise and expand the use of accountable care contracts under the Medicare Shared Savings Program, reports Modern Healthcare. 

Editas Medicine Licenses Genome Editing Technology from Broad Institute and Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Editas Medicine, a leading genome editing company, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive joint license agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University to access intellectual property and technology related to the CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE genome editing systems. 

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Collaborative analytics effort helps Advocate bend cost curve

BOSTON—Big data is not the end but the means to the end, said Tina Esposito, vice president of Advocate Health Care’s Center for Health Information Services in Chicago, speaking at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

Penn Medicine uses predictive analytics to reduce sepsis mortality

BOSTON—Penn Medicine set out to decrease its sepsis mortality index since the rate of incidence was increasing and the organization’s SMI was higher than the median of the University HealthSystem Consortium.

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Strategies for physician-led ACOs

BOSTON—Physician-led accountable care organizations are overtaking hospital-led ones, said James Colbert, MD, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and consultant for ACO Learning Network at The Brookings Institution, at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 21.

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Health IT executives talk big data

BOSTON—How are larger organizations approaching opportunities in big data and health analytics? Executives from Boston Children’s Hospital, UMass Memorial Health and Partners HealthCare shared their thoughts at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 21.

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Carolinas HealthCare uses analytics to prepare for future

BOSTON--Leadership at Carolinas Healthcare System looked at HIMSS Level 7 facilities in an effort to find out how they could get there as quickly as possible, said Michael Dulin, MD, PhD, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes research, speaking at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

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Quality, safety focus no longer an option

BOSTON—The changing healthcare landscape means providers must “remake the delivery system to survive and succeed in the new healthcare world,” said Robert M. Wachter, MD, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, speaking at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

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Cardiovascular Business
FDA says years-long tirzepatide shortage is resolved, will give limited leeway to compounders

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.

AI in Healthcare
From Capitol Hill to a hospital near you? 5 federal recommendations for healthcare AI policy

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. 

Cardiovascular Business
Merck spends up to $2B to license new weight loss drug with potential heart benefits

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.