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.

PACSGear releases quality control GearView feature

PACSGear (Booth 9142) will introduce its new quality control and media-sharing GearView QC 2.0 feature at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, in Chicago.

FDA clears GE and Toshiba for CT overexposure, calls for changes

The FDA has cleared GE Healthcare and Toshiba America Medical Systems of any blame for the overexposure of hundreds of patients to CT-induced radiation resulting from brain perfusion scans.

Pennsylvania RECs to adopt Greenway EHR

Pennsylvania regional extension centers (RECs) PA REACH East and PA REACH West have designated Greenway Medical Technologies' EHR practice management and interoperability tool PrimeSUITE as a group purchasing program-certified EHR option.

Baptist HealthCare to deploy NextGen software

Baptist HealthCare, a community-owned nonprofit healthcare organization serving northwest Florida and southern Alabama, has executed an agreement with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems to deploy NextGen Ambulatory EHR and NextGen Practice Management.

Healthy Heart Project selects OmniMD for EMR

OmniMD, a developer of internet-based enterprise healthcare tools, has been selected as an EMR vendor to participate in the Healthy Heart Project in New York State.

IBM to support Norway hospitals

IBM has entered into an agreement with Central Norway Regional Health Authority to provide IT to support all hospitals in Norway and improve coordination and reporting of health information, logistics and finance.

Harris develops national U.S. vets patient registries

Harris has been awarded a contract to continue developing national patient registries for U.S. military veterans. The new contract, with a 12-month base period and two 12-month option periods, is a follow-on to the original contract awarded to Harris in October 2008.

KLAS: Providers pick RAC software vendors based on prior dealings

Healthcare providers make recovery audit contractor (RAC) software choices based on previous experience with a particular vendor, found a report issued Nov. 9 by healthcare market research firm KLAS.

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.