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.

FHN Hospital selects ProVation Order Sets for order maintenance

FHN Hospital has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.

MGH to test Merge's mobile technologies

Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a partnership to create a testing environment for the companys new mobile healthcare technologies.

Barco lands two Netherlands installs

Visualization technology provider Barco has inked a two-installation agreement with the Medical Centre Leeuwarden, a teaching hospital located in Leeuwarden and Harlingen, the Netherlands.

NextGen deploys EHR/PM to N.Y. provider

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, has executed an agreement with Prime Care Physicians to deploy NextGen EHR and NextGen Practice Management (PM).

Lumedx expands contract at UC Davis Medical Center

University of California, (UC) Davis Medical Center has selected medical imaging and information systems provider, Lumedx, to manage its clinical and operational data, by purchasing Lumedx Apollo structured reporting, analytics and interoperability products for its heart and vascular centers.

Study: CT cost-effectively screens for lung disease in non-smoking women

Performing a high-resolution CT on non-smoking women age 24 to 53 with a collapsed lung can be a cost-effective screening for lymphangioleiomyomatosis, according to a study published online Feb. 18 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

MGMA CEO Jessee to retire, search is on for successor

William F. Jessee, MD, president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), will retire after 11 years of service in the fall of 2011; meanwhile MGMA said that it will soon begin the search for his successor.

Cardiovascular Information Systems: How to Drive Efficiency & ROI

As the U.S. population gets increasingly older (the number of Americans over 65 is expected to increase a little more than 12 percent now to almost 20 percent by 2030), the demands on the nations health system—particularly in the area of cardiology—will continue to multiply.

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.