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.

eRad lands N.J. software installation

Atlantic Diagnostics in Tinton, N.J., has installed the web-based software from medical image management technologies provider, eRad.

Siemens equips New York-Presbyterian

New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City has installed five Siemens Healthcare Artis zeego medical imaging systems for the treatment of brain, heart and vascular and colorectal systems.

Picis nets two VA contracts

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Picis two contracts via the Veterans Integrated Service Network 8, also known as the VA Sunshine Healthcare Network.

Zotec inks billing contract with Texas radiology group

Medical billing and practice management services provider Zotec Partners has signed a three-year billing services agreement with Weatherford, Texas-based radiology provider, Peach Tree Radiology.

Siemens nets two CPOE orders

Holy Redeemer Health System and Riverside Health System, two U.S. healthcare providers, have implemented Siemens Healthcares Soarian computerized physician order entry (CPOE) capabilities that first went live several weeks ago.

Midwest health system selects eClinicalWorks' EMR

Advocate Physician Partners has chosen eClinicalWorks to add an EMR system to APPs Clinical Integration program.

JACR: Financial incentives, new technology speed report turnover time

Technological interventions, as well as financial incentives have been found to have the ability to result in synergistic and sustainable improvement in radiologist report-signing behavior and this cut-down on signature time can lead to improved patient care, said the results of a study published in the March edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Johns Hopkins to pay $370K for improper use of radiological equipment

Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital have agreed to pay the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) a $370,000 penalty to resolve the MDE's civil claims for alleged violations of Maryland laws and regulations governing the use of radioactive materials and radiation machines.

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.