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.

Colorado hospital extends communications deal with NEC

NEC of America has extended the communications infrastructure built on its Univerge communications servers at University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) by implementing the Cisco Nurse Connect application at UCH.

Compressus helps integrate systems for Northwest provider network

Medical Imaging Northwest, based in Puyallup, Wash., has initiated a digital imaging and data management integration project with interoperability provider Compressus.

Franklin & Seidelmann ink service agreement with California network

Radiology interpretations provider Franklin and Seidelmann (F&S) have signed a remote reading service agreement with Adventist Health Central Valley Networks, for its multiple sites in Hanford and Selma, Calif.

Texas health system inks enterprise app deal with Lawson

Technology provider Lawson Software has signed a contract with Cook Childrens Healthcare System under which Lawson will provide multiple enterprise applications.

Citrus Memorial upgrades HIS with McKesson

Citrus Memorial Health System has chosen to upgrade its hospital information system (HIS) with health IT company McKessons Paragon community HIS. As part of the agreement, McKesson will remotely host the HIS.

UnitedHealthcare announces policy changes for Radiology Notification Program

UnitedHealthcare will be requiring network physicians, including UnitedHealth premium quality and cost efficiency designated physicians, to complete prior notification for advanced imaging services.

Garden City Hospital integrates ED software

Garden City Hospital has integrated Dragon Medical from Nuance with Emergisoft's EmergisoftED in the Garden City, Mich.-based facilitys emergency department (ED).

University of Colorado taps Epic for $67M EMR project

A three-year, $67 million project to deploy Epic's EMRs across all clinical areas, and will integrate clinical systems and generate more than 150 jobs at the University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, Colo.

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.