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.

Iasis chooses Wolters' CDS for 16 sites

UpToDate, a part of health IT company Wolters Kluwer Health, has been selected by Iasis Healthcare to provide clinical decision support (CDS) in its 16 U.S. hospitals.

CoActiv's cloud-based archive selected by N.Y. practice

Mount Kisco Medical Group in New York has selected CoActiv's Exam-Vault Quad-Redundant Archiving for the storage of its multi-modality imaging exams.

SIIM: McKesson debuts Radiology Benchmarks Collaborative

MINNEAPOLIS--McKesson showcased Radiology Benchmarks Collaborative, an automated benchmarking subscription service, at the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week. The new service provides the strategic tools to analyze, share and compare practice information for financial, operational and clinical performance.

Rad practice to offer 24-hour reading with Intelerad

Radiology Imaging Consultants, a radiology practice that reads and reports more than 850,000 studies annually throughout Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, is collaborating with Intelerad Medical Systems to offer services, including overnight coverage with final interpretation to hospitals and emergency departments.

MEDecision, NaviNet partner to provide web portal access

MEDecision has entered into a joint integration and marketing agreement with communications company NaviNet to deliver MEDecision's Patient Clinical Summariespayor-based EHRsand referral and authorization technology to providers enrolled in the NaviNet Network.

Mass General taps Medrad for lung PET imaging research

Medical device provider Medrad and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have entered into an agreement that will aid the hospital with its research in lung function using PET imaging.

N.Y. REC selects NextGen for EHRs

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, has been named a preferred vendor of EHRs by New York eHealth Collaborative and a selected vendor for NYC Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health (NYC REACH), the federally designated regional extension centers (RECs) for New York State and New York City, respectively.

Radisphere extends reading services in Pennsylvania

Radiology interpretations provider Radisphere National Radiology Group has signed a contract with Berwick Hospital Center in Berwick, Pa., and Lock Haven Hospital of Lock Haven, Pa.

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.