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.

eClinicalWorks to provide EMR for Ohio provider

Ohio-based Summa Physicians has chosen EMR provider eClinicalWorks EMR for its 223 physicians serving 33 specialties.

NovaRad scores two S.C. contracts

Fairfield Memorial Hospital and Piedmont Family Practice at York, both located in South Carolina, have inked contracts for installations with the RIS/PACS provider NovaRads NovaPACS.

AJR: Digital mammo delivers much less radiation than conventional mammo

The radiation dose associated with digital mammography is significantly lower (averaging 22 percent lower) than that of conventional film mammography and the reduction could be greater in women with larger and denser breasts, according to an American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) trial in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

VA facilities implement GE anesthesia solution

GE Healthcares Centricity perioperative anesthesia solution has been implemented into the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinical information system, VistA.

West Georgia facility to adopt ProVation Order Sets

West Georgia Health System has selected health IT company Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation Order Sets to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets at the West Georgia Medical Center.

3D Mobile imaging now offered in the Southeast

Mobile cone-beam CT scanning service provider 3D Mobile Imaging is currently being put into practice by dental practitioners in Georgia and South Carolina.

St. Louis pediatric provider deploys Siemens CT

St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis has installed a Somatom Definition AS CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare.

Florida health system selects Axolotl

Memorial Healthcare System of Hollywood, Fla., has selected Axolotls Elysium Exchange suite to access and share clinical information between physician practices and medical staff.

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.