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.

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Dollars & Sense: Keeping Your Practice Financially Viable

In today's climate of diminishing reimbursement and the continuous battle to hold onto referrals and contracts, radiology practices are focused on providing superior radiology services and being fiscally fit. While there are many reasons why a radiology practice especially those offering outpatient imaging services can falter, practices that are thriving are carefully blending a combination of politics, patient research and preparation for the long-haul.

Boston IDN retrofits with InterSystems' Ensemble

CareGroup Healthcare System, a Boston-based integrated delivery network (IDN) comprised of four hospitals, has selected InterSystems Ensemble integration and development platform to replace its eGate platform for throughout the organization.

NQF webinar maps the route to quality improvement

Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.

Webmedx provides Ky. facility with transcription, data mining

University of Kentucky Healthcare in Lexington, Ky., has signed an agreement for  Webmedxs medical transcription services and QualityAnalytics data mining technology.

Midwest rad group reups contract with Zotec

McHenry Radiologists & Imaging Associates of McHenry, Ill., has renewed its software licensing contract with medical billing and practice management provider Zotec Partners for the next five years.

Washington hospital selects Toshiba MRI

Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, Wash., has installed a Vantage Titan MRI system from Toshiba America Medical Systems.

Survey: Patients know little about EHRs, willing to try

Although only 16 percent of U.S. adults have been approached by their healthcare provider to discuss converting to digital records, Americans claim they are ready to embrace EHRs, according to a recent online survey conducted for Xerox.

VA selects ESN to upgrade VistA for HIPAA standards

Engineering Services Network (ESN) won a $7.9 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to upgrade the agency's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) to meet HIPAA electronic transaction standards for enabling a third-party payment system.

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Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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.

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

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.