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.

Ariz. facility to integrate EMR data on InterSystems platform

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 333-bed nonprofit acute care hospital in Yuma, Ariz., has chosen InterSystems Ensemble integration and development platform for its enterprise-wide integration effort.

Montana rad, hospital settle $4M suit

Radiologist Jesse A. Cole has accepted a $4 million settlement in a lawsuit against St. James Healthcare and its parent corporation, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System.

Agfa brings document management technology to U.K.

Diagnostic imaging and IT company Agfa HealthCare has launched its document management system for healthcare organizations, HYDMedia, in the U.K.

Colorado provider to deploy Wolters Kluwer software for coding

Exempla Healthcare, a Denver-based nonprofit health system, has selected Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation MD software for gastroenterology and pulmonary procedure documentation and coding.

EMC, VMware build private cloud for multi-site N.Y. health system

Orange Regional Medical Center, a 450-bed multi-facility hospital system based in Middletown, N.Y., has deployed tools from EMC and VMware to build a private cloud environment to manage and meet business and clinical needs.

Diversinet helps U.S. Army communicate with veterans

Mobile healthcare communications company Diversinet has been awarded a five-year contract to support expansion of the U.S. Armys mCare telehealth-outreach program for members of the military recovering from mild traumatic brain injuries and other wounds.

Louisiana hospital adds smart phone app

Fairway Medical Surgical Hospital, of Covington, La., has partnered with healthcare information software developer Healthagen to utilize the companys iTriage smart phone app for clinical decision support.

AJR: 40% of rad departments perform outside reading

Forty percent of radiology practices in the U.S. perform outside reading for other institutions, with smaller and non-suburban practices taking on significantly larger workloads of outside reading than other institutions, according to a study published in the November edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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.