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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Baptist Health System Selects Merge Healthcare to Further Enhance Cardiology Care

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (NASDAQ:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, entered into an agreement to provide its Merge Hemo(TM) solution to Baptist Health System of Birmingham, Alabama.

September 14, 2015

Report finds prices of PCSK9 inhibitors should be discounted

An Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) analysis found that the price that best represents the benefits of newly FDA-approved proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors should be approximately two-thirds lower than the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of the medications.

September 9, 2015
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Drug prices receive more scrutiny

Even as pharmaceutical companies develop safer and more effective drugs, the costs of those medications are becoming a concern for healthcare executives, hospitals, payers and patients.

September 9, 2015

Medtronic’s quarterly revenue increases following slew of acquisitions

For the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, Medtronic’s revenue increased 12 percent compared with the same time period last year thanks to an extra week in the quarter and its acquisition of Covidien, according to earnings results announced by the company.

September 3, 2015

Abbott denies report of $25B bid for St. Jude Medical

Abbott Laboratories denied a Financial Times report that it was prepared to bid $25 billion to acquire St. Jude Medical. St. Jude, which is based in Minnesota, declined to comment when contacted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

August 27, 2015

Greatbatch agrees to acquire Lake Region Medical for more than $1.7 billion

Greatbatch announced on Aug. 27 that it agreed to acquire Lake Region Medical for approximately $1.73 billion. The deal, which has been unanimously approved by both companies’ boards of directors, is expected to close by the fourth quarter of 2015 pending regulatory reviews and other closing conditions.

August 27, 2015

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation Completes Acquisition Of CardiAQ

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, today announced that it has closed its acquisition of CardiAQ Valve Technologies, Inc., a privately held company and developer of a transcatheter mitral valve replacement system.

August 27, 2015
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Most Americans think drug prices are unreasonable

More than 70 percent of Americans believe drug prices are unreasonable and nearly 25 percent have trouble paying for their prescription medications, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released on Aug. 20.

August 21, 2015
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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.

Radiology Business
What does radiology have to do with climate change?

Kate Hanneman, MD, explains why many vendors and hospitals want to lower radiology's impact on the environment. "Taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare isn’t just an opportunity," she said. "It’s also a responsibility."

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