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.

Norton purchases care management software

Norton Healthcare, owner of five hospitals and 125 medical facilities in Louisville, Ky., and southern Indiana, has purchased Morrisey Associates' Morrisey Concurrent Care Manager (MCCM) application.

KPMG: High cost could reduce full-time RN staff

A KPMG survey conducted among 120 U.S. senior hospital executives showed that the average annual cost of a full-time registered nurse (RN) in the inpatient setting is $98,000, or $45 per hour. As a result, survey respondents indicated a possible future trend toward increases use of traveling or per diem nurse staffing.

Pa. health network, T-System to support patient care at raceway

Allentown, Pa.-based health system Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) will begin using health IT service developer T-System's DigitalShare documentation system to support emergency medical response and on-scene emergency healthcare for the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.

Okla. hospital to deploy T-System's throughput technology

Duncan Regional Hospital will implement T Systems EV STAT, a throughput technology designed to help hospitals operate at maximum efficiency.

OhioHealth, MinuteClinic enter clinical affiliation

OhioHealth, a nonprofit healthcare organization, has contracted with MinuteClinic for healthcare services in seven central Ohio locations.

CliniComp completes DoD EMR install

CliniComp has completed installation of its CliniComp Essentris EMR at 59 military inpatient treatment facilities worldwide, including 36 facilities in just under two years.

Datacore to develop cloud-based behavioral health EMR

Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (LCADA) has partnered with cloud computing software developer Datacore Consulting to develop cloud-based EMR software for the behavioral health industry.

Siemens debuts consulting offering

Siemens Healthcare has developed the Act on Radiology consulting model that seeks to help improve workflows in radiology departments.

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.