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.

First non-U.S. hospital receives HIMSS Analytics Stage 7

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Societys (HIMSS) Analytics subsidiary has designated Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. The South Korean hospital is the first outside the U.States to achieve Stage 7 designation.

Ohio REC opts for eClinicalWorks EMR

State regional extension center (REC) Ohio Regional Health Information Partnership has selected eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management system as an ambulatory vendor for its primary care providers statewide.

Calif. center installs hospital-wide Barco upgrades

Riverside County Regional Medical Center has completed an upgrade of imaging displays across all departments using Barco display systems.

Siemens markets Mammomat in U.S.

Siemens has released its Mammomat Inspiration full-field digital mammography system in the U.S.

TeraRecon launches EVAR in the cloud

TeraRecon will now offer its Aquarius iNtuition 3D endograft planning suite through iNtuition CLOUD iNtuition as an Internet-based service advanced visualization software as a cloud computing platform and will demonstrate its iNtuition Cloud at the 37th Annual VEITH Symposium, Nov. 17 to 21, in New York City.

Saint Lukes taps Accelarad for online image access

Saint Luke's Health System in Kansas City, Mo., has selected Accelarad's SeeMyRadiology.com as a cloud-based imaging platform to share medical images beyond the hospital.

Canadian hospital adds order sets

North York General Hospital in Toronto has integrated ZynxOrder from Zynx Health into its EHR system to provide order sets at the point of care.

AHRA webinar: Transition to ICD-10 revolutionary for rad administrators

The U.S. adoption of ICD-10 will prove to be "one of the largest changes in the modern day" for medicine, leading to greater accuracy and specificity in medical reporting, declared Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) speaker Melody Mulaik, president of Coding Strategies, during the Nov. 17 webinar What Radiology Administrators Need to Know about ICD-10.

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.