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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Users Mine Repositories for Better Patient Care

Repositories may be the wave of the future, but there’s a sea of obstacles in the way.

Connected Health: Defining big data and what it’s good for

BOSTON—Big data have the potential to help improve clinical care, but it will be a while before benefits are realized, according to the panelists of an Oct. 25 presentation at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium, hosted by Partners HealthCare.

Connected Health: FDA inaction may do more harm than good

BOSTON—Pharmaceutical companies don’t make drugs like they used to. The FDA should let them, according to Juan Enriquez, MBA, managing director of Excel Venture Management and former founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project, who spoke Oct. 25 at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium, hosted by Partners HealthCare.

Connected Health: Can accountable care reverse healthcare spending trends?

BOSTON—Spending more does not equal better care. Accountable care can reverse that trend, Elliot S. Fisher, MD, MPH, said during an Oct. 25 presentation at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium, hosted by Partners HealthCare in Boston.

CMS posts 2014 clinical quality measures

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the 64 clinical quality measures that eligible professionals and hospitals will be required to report beginning in 2014.

NQF announces support for 16 cancer quality measures

The National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsed six new quality measures and reaffirmed its support for 10 existing quality measures related to the diagnosis and treatment breast and colon cancers.

EHRs can help identify med nonadherence

The addition of written-prescription data to measures of adherence identified nearly twice as many nonadherent patients and markedly improved prediction of changes in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, according to a study published in the October issue of The American Journal of Managed Care.

OIG leadership talks fraud, enforcement

The Office of the Inspector General posted a video on its website covering the top priorities of its healthcare activities for 2013.

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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.