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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Mercy Hospital Ada brings in new cardiologist

Mercy Hospital Ada in Ada, Oklahoma has hired cardiologist Finnuala Gurley, MD, reports the Ada News.

Report: Aide to Trump’s nominee to head HHS plays role in heart failure drug controversy

An aide in the office of Rep. Tom Price, MD, sent multiple emails to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) requesting to remove a 2009 study that raised questions about a heart failure medication, ProPublica reports.

Fixed-dose combination pills may improve adherence, persistence in adults with hypertension

Prescribing fixed-dose combination pills to patients with hypertension may help improve their adherence and persistence to their medications and encourage them to refill their prescription, according to a claims database analysis.

ACC submits comments to CMS on final MACRA rule

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently submitted comments to CMS regarding the final Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) rules that were released last fall.

Black, Hispanic adults may have poorer hypertension control than white patients

Black and Hispanic patients with hypertension had poorer control of their condition compared with white patients with hypertension, according to a cross-sectional study. The researchers found the differences in hypertension were more pronounced in younger and uninsured patients.

Tobacco's price tag? $1 trillion a year in healthcare costs

Tobacco products cost the world’s economies more than $1 trillion annually in healthcare expenditures and lost productivity, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

LinkedIn data shows cardiologists have highest base salary of any job

With a median annual base salary of $356,000, cardiologists are the highest-paid workers in the U.S., according to LinkedIn. Cardiologists also had a median total compensation of $400,000 per year.

FDA says St. Jude Medical’s devices could face cybersecurity vulnerabilities

After reviewing information, the FDA announced on Jan. 9 that St. Jude Medical’s radio frequency (RF)-enabled implantable cardiac devices and the company’s Merlin@home transmitter could be subject to cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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Health Imaging
Use of AI opportunistic screening in CT for cardiovascular disease

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.

Health Imaging
New imaging protocols proposed to curb rise of cardiovascular infections

Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.