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.

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Oklahoma HealthCare Authority extends HP contract

Oklahoma HealthCare Authority (OHCA) has extended its service agreement with HP Enterprise Service by signing a $281 million, seven-year contract to add IT services to prepare the state for healthcare reform and make services more accessible to SoonerCare (Oklahoma Medicaid) members.

Siemens Mammomat penetrates U.S. mammo market

Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology on Long Island, N.Y. has completed the first U.S. installation of Siemens Mammomat Inspiration full-field digital mammography system.

Integrated Healthcare Association awarded $2.9M from AHRQ

The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has been awarded a three year, $2.9 million grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to demonstrate bundled episode payments for physicians, hospitals and other providers and evaluate their effectiveness compared to current payment methods in California.

Lancet: Telemonitoring reduces hospitalizations for HF patients

Results from a clinical trial have produced the first positive, randomized findings for an implantable hemodynamic monitoring device in patients with moderately symptomatic heart failure where the addition of information about pulmonary artery pressure to clinical signs and symptoms allowed for improved heart failure management and led to a reduction in heart failure-related hospitalizations, according to the CHAMPION study published online Feb. 10 in the Lancet.

Las Vegas heart center installs GE PET system

Nevada Heart and Vascular Center in Las Vegas is now offering PET for patients who require cardiac stress testing.

Lithuanian hospital installs dicomPACS

Naujosios Akmens Hospital has purchased OR Technologys multi-workstation dicomPACS for managing its CR images.

Study: Surgical breast biopsies persistently overused

Despite clear advantages of percutaneous needle biopsy, open surgical breast biopsies remained common in Florida from 2003 to 2008, according to study published online Feb. 8 in The American Journal of Surgery. Reducing the number of open biopsies from 30 percent of the total volume to 10 percent could have produced a charge reduction of $37.2 million in the state in 2008.

IMV: DR use rises; procedures grow while installed units drop

X-ray volume has grown by an average of 5.5 percent per year since 2005, despite a 1 percent yearly decline in the number of x-ray systems installed across the U.S., according to a Feb. 10 report published by market research and consulting firm IMV.

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Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

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

Cardiovascular Business
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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.

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

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.