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.

NEJM: Model-based approach can clarify device evaluations

A model-based approach to device evaluation may offer decision-changing insights into medical device efficacy and durability, according to a perspective published Oct. 20 New England Journal of Medicine.

Carestream Health to provide cloud services to French hospital

University Hospital of Saint-Etienne in France has chosen Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream Health to provide cloud archiving services to enable the hospital to collaborate with other healthcare facilities in the region.

Sectra inks multi-year deal with regional hospital in the Netherlands

Sectra, the medical IT systems developer based in Linkping, Sweden, has signed a five-year agreement with the two-site regional hospital Gelre Ziekenhuizen in the Netherlands.

Illinois provider expands Centricity investment

SIU HealthCare of Barrington, Ill., has selected GE Healthcares Centricity Business for its financial performance and have interoperability capabilities with its GE Centricity EMR.

NEJM: Shift from 'patient' to 'consumer' undermines medicine

Medical terminology since the age of healthcare reform has shifted from a vocabulary such as vasospasms and angina to an entirely new language that turns patients into customers or consumers and doctors into "providers," according to a perspective published Oct. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

AJR: How to stop worrying and love the ACO model

An expert panel considered the role of radiologists in reducing healthcare costs and offered strategies for responding to the accountable care organization (ACO) model during a Masters of Radiology discussion. An article based on the transcript of the discussion appeared in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

ICF awarded $9.7M to manage CDC data

ICF International of Fairfax, Va., has been awarded a re-compete contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide data management support and technical assistance to more than 40 CDC-funded grantees. The contract has a value of $9.7 million and a term of one base year, plus four optional years.

Judge refuses to throw out $34M verdict against RBM

A New York federal judge has denied a motion to throw out a $34 million jury verdict against CareCore National, a radiology benefits management (RBM) company, in an antitrust case.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.