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.

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.

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.

Around the web

GE HealthCare designed the new-look Revolution Vibe CT scanner to help hospitals and health systems embrace CCTA and improve overall efficiency.

Clinicians have been using HeartSee to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease since the technology first debuted back in 2018. These latest updates, set to roll out to existing users, are designed to improve diagnostic performance and user access.

The cardiac technologies clinicians use for CVD evaluations have changed significantly in recent years, according to a new analysis of CMS data. While some modalities are on the rise, others are being utilized much less than ever before.