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.

Texas hospital system employs DICOM's radiology platform

Memorial Hermann has implemented DICOM Grids cloud-based medical image sharing platform.

Tenn. hospital group selects HMS application software

RegionalCare Hospital Partners has selected Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) to provide clinical and financial applications to its hospitals.

Survey says? Practices are sluggish to test for HIPAA 5010

As the deadline for hospitals to convert to HIPAA Version 5010 quickly approaches, a survey conducted by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has found that practices are lagging in the race to meet 5010 deadlines. In fact, 45.2 percent of practices said that they have not yet started implementation or software upgrades.

Radiologist + 3 others could face life in prison for $17M billing fraud

A California radiologist who owned several medical practices, including an imaging center, has been charged with fraudulently billing workers compensation patients for false and unnecessary procedures, and faces sentences of up to 892 years in prison.

Miss. radiology group selects Circadence software platform

Imaging Associates of North Mississippi Magnolia has implemented Circadences MVO software platform.

MGMA survey: Radiology compensation slips

While radiologists compensation crept downward, primary and specialty care physicians reported mixed movement in compensation in 2010, according to Medical Group Management Associations (MGMA's) Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data. The report also showed persistent regional discrepancies in compensation.

N.C. health system chooses ProVation order sets

Moses Cone Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets as the electronic order set platform for the five-hospital health system.

North Shore-LIJ Health System selects SIS Anesthesia

North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System has extended its enterprise agreement with Surgical Information Systems (SIS) by selecting SIS Anesthesia as its anesthesia documentation solution.

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.