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.

Alliance completes 2nd purchase of 24/7 Radiology

Outpatient imaging and radiotherapy provider Alliance Healthcare Services has made its second acquisition of 24/7 Radiology, a $5 million dollar deal that is expected to double Alliances revenue.

New Mexico provider enlists MEDai analytics tools

Lovelace Health Plan in Albuquerque, N.M., has purchased MEDai Risk Navigator tools to assist outcomes through predictive analytics.

German clinics go live with wireless EHR access

Germanys Loreley-Kliniken (Loreley Clinics) are now using distributed enterprise network tools provider Aruba Networkss 802.11n wireless networks to access EHRs.

Digisonics locks install and upgrades

Health IT company Digisonics has landed one new install and two expansions for its OB-Windows Structured Reporting software.

Wellcome, GE partnership to explore MRI in newborns

International health charity Wellcome Trust has granted GE Healthcare a Strategic Translation Award for the companys research into the use of MRI on newborns.

Rockford taps C3 for meaningful use

Rockford Health System (RHS), a health system serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, has implemented C3 Partners Meaningful Use Monitor service to assist in achieving meaningful use metrics.

Cardiocom secures contract for home telehealth devices

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has awarded Cardiocom one of six national contracts for home telehealth devices and services.

Imaging alliance advocates decision support, not prior authorization

As an alternative to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commissions recommendation that practitioners who order high levels of imaging be required to obtain prior authorization, the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition is calling on MedPAC to abandon its recommendation for the time-consuming process and implement clinical decision support.

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.