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.

ICA expands CareAlign in Montana HIE

Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) announced that its CareAlign tool is successfully aggregating data from the core clinical systems of a wide variety of participants within the Health Information Exchange of Montana (HIEM).

Royal Philips expands critical care support in rural communities

Royal Philips Electronics is expanding access to critical care support in rural communities with the eICU Program from Philips VISICU.

JACR: Radiology practices should plan for the future

Scenario analysis can be highly effective when applied by radiology group practices, according to an article published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, which stated that planning for the future can work well for the types of rapid change and high uncertainty that many groups are currently facing in their group decisions.

Nebraska health system migrates to Soarian HIS

Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb. has signed a health IT agreement to begin migrating to Soarian, Siemens healthcare information system.

New Jersey practice outsources billing to Zotec

Atlantic Medical Imaging (AMI) is now outsourcing billing services to practice management company Zotec Partners.

California health system supports initiative with Eclipsys

Cottage Health System of Santa Barbara, Calif., will use a combination of Eclipsys ambulatory and health information exchange (HIE) tools to support its eHealth Partnership initiative.

N.J. health system uses InterSystems for integration platform

InterSystems announced that the Hunterdon Healthcare System is using the InterSystems Ensemble integration and development platform as the foundation for a strategy to provide continuity of care.

NextGen gets nod from Illinois nonprofit

Illinois-based nonprofit health organization Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center will deploy NextGen EHR, NextGen Practice Management and electronic dental records from Quality Systems.

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.