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.

Kansas health network plans for GE's EMR

Wichita Clinic in Kansas has stated it plans to implement Centricity EMR from GE Healthcare across all 12 of its locations to help staff manage the half-million patient visits the system averages each year.

Study: Computerized rounding, sign-out system shortens duty hours

Responding to limited resident duty hours, the University of Washington implemented a computerized rounding and sign-out system (UW Cores), which resulted in shortened duty hours by facilitating sign-out, decreasing rounding time and sharply reducing the time spent in prerounds data recopying, according to an article in the July edition of Academic Medicine.

Oklahoma facility goes digital with Carestream

The Indian HealthCare Resource Center in Tulsa, Okla., has ordered a Carestream RIS/PACS, a Directview DR 7500 digital radiography system and a Carestream Dryview 5850 printer from Carestream Health to convert from film and paper to a digital workflow, as part of an expansion that will bring the size of the main clinic to 52,000 square feet.

NEJM: Higher intensity practice regions = more testing; no survival impact

Medicare beneficiaries who moved to a region with higher intensity medical services are associated with greater increases in diagnostic testing, more recorded chronic conditions and higher Hierarchical Condition Categories risk scores when compared with beneficiaries who moved to a region with lower practice intensity, with no apparent survival benefit, according to a study published July 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Siemens' Soarian Clinicals expands West

BJC HealthCare has signed a $49 million, 12-year agreement to migrate 11 of its hospitals to Siemens Soarian Financials   enterprise web-based revenue cycle tool.

Iasis to deploy McKesson Horizon Clinicals suite

McKesson and Iasis Healthcare have extended their strategic relationship as Iasis plans to implement McKesson Horizon Clinicals tools for physician documentation and computerized physician order entry (CPOE).

Study: Simulation training improves contrast reaction management

A high-fidelity simulation course for radiology residents and technologists focusing on epinephrine auto-injector use and basic life support skills during the first five minutes of a severe contrast reaction can significantly improve treatment of patients experiencing severe contrast reactions, found a recent study published online in Academic Radiology.

Siemens PET/CT to assess military personnel at new rehab center

Siemens PET/CT imaging technology, the Biograph mCT has been selected by the National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, which opened last week in Bethesda, Md.

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.