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.

Washington provider taps MedSphere, Phoenix Health for EHR, integration

Ephrata, Wash.-based Columbia Basin Hospital is implementing Phoenix Health Systems' Total IT Solution and Medsphere Systems' OpenVista EHR.

Detroit physician group deploys NextGen revenue cycle services

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems has completed an agreement with Detroit-based Wayne State University Physician Group to deploy NextGen Practice Solutions to provide revenue cycle management services.

eRads scores PACS install in Colorado

An eRad PACS has been deployed in Haxtun Hospital, a rural facility in Haxtun Colorado.

Meridian Health selects CareAlign for connection

Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) announced its CareAlign application has been selected by New Jersey-based Meridian Health to connect internal and external healthcare participants across Meridian Health, including five not-for-profit hospitals and its affiliated healthcare companies and providers spanning central to southern New Jersey.

SIR: Drug-eluting stents emerge as option for critical limb ischemia

Interventional radiologists have found that a subgroup of patients with critical limb ischemia, the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), may avoid amputation through the use of drug-eluting stents on the smaller arteries below the knee, according to a study released at this weeks Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla.

German hospital digitalization project to include Barco PACS installation

Medical imaging company Barco has signed a display contract with Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare as part of a German hospital digitalization project, said Barco.

Lumedx, Philips partner for ultrasound imaging solution

Lumedx, cardiovascular information systems developer, has integrated the Philips Healthcare QLAB advanced 2D and 3D ultrasound quantification tools to its CardioPACS imaging solution for better diagnostic accuracy.

Toshiba lands DR install with Miami Childrens Hospital

The Miami Childrens Hospital in South Florida has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems Infinix CF-i bi-plane system to obtain images during hybrid catheterization procedures.

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.