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.

GE Healthcare's Flannery named CEO of General Electric; Immelt to retire

John Flannery, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, will become CEO of General Electric on Aug. 1 and will assume the chairman position in 2018. He will replace GE’s current CEO and chairman, Jeff Immelt, who will step down after 16 years in the leadership roles.

5 points on cardiologist salary info, demographics from recent survey

A recent survey from Merritt Hawkins, a Dallas-based search firm, included updated demographic and salary data on a wide variety of specialties, both invasive and non-invasive among them.

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Improved quality interventions for heart failure patients linked to reduced readmissions, varying costs

Patients who are hospitalized once are likely to be hospitalized again, but patients with heart failure are at an even greater risk. Plus, it’s costly.

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Physician-vendors partner for patient good

The partnering of physicians and vendors has created and improved modern medicine. Collaborations have dawned new devices, systems, drugs, innovations and ways of diagnosing, treating and managing patients. Every day these advancements help to save and improve patient lives. But as we well know, partnership over the years also has overly feathered the pockets of some and bred a fair amount of fraud.

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Medicare now covers non-invasive peripheral artery disease treatment

Medicare now covers a supervised exercise therapy for peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to CMS, a decision that will likely result in other insurers following this example.

Medtronic Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Results

Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017, which ended April 28, 2017.

West Virginia med school establishes cardiology scholarship

The cardiology department at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, has created a new endowed scholarship that will help educate students seeking  careers in cardiology, reports the Herald Dispatch.

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AHA awards $2 million to cardiac research at top universities

The American Heart Association (AHA) announced May 19 that it will donate two $1 million research grants to support research on medications and high blood pressure.

Around the web

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

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