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: Ryan plan worth revising, not tossing

Congressman Paul Ryans (R-Wis.) Medicare reform plan offers a unique and attractive alternative to the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, but key revisions should be relaxed to ensure affordable access to care for Americas seniors, argued the author of a perspective article published April 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

LIPSG selects NexTech EMR software

Long Island Plastic Surgical Group (LIPSG) has chosen NexTech Systems EMR and practice management software for its plastic surgery software needs.

Allina extends deal with IOD

Allina Hospitals & Clinics has extended to 2015 its agreement with IOD, a provider of integrated health information management services.

Heartland taps Voalt to consolidate mobile infrastructure

Heartland Regional Medical Center has implemented Voalts iPhone integration technology, putting disparate hospital communication systems onto a single platform.

Sharp enlists Oracle for patient portal

Sharp HealthCare has enlisted Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic Suite as the backbone for the mySharp patient portal, which provides patients with a unified view of their healthcare information.

CaroMont taps athenahealth for practice management

CaroMont Health, a regional, independent, not-for-profit healthcare system, has selected athenahealth to provide cloud-based services to approximately 200 of its medical providers.

Md. hospital installs Toshibas vascular hybrid

The Vascular Center at Mercy Medical Center has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems Infinix VC-i and customized CAT-880B catheterization table for its new OR.

Humana Military nets appointment services contract

Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, N.C., has awarded Humana Military Healthcare Services a second contract to continue providing patient appointing services.

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.