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.

Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?
New survey results delve deeper into what students are seeing in their future careers as physicians and how diagnostic imaging fits into the picture.
Orthopedic trauma reads a 'significant difficulty' for radiology residents
The findings are concerning, especially considering the amount of orthopedic cases residents are involved in during call shifts, researchers caution.
FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology
Diagnostic imaging leads the way in AI product approvals by a mile, accounting for more than 70% of all applications on the list.
Clinicians want AI to show its work
Providers are more likely to trust AI when they understand how it arrives at its conclusions.
Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade
The new appropriate use criteria define 17 specific clinical scenarios, guiding providers on situations when amyloid or tau imaging are and are not appropriate.

Alabama provider to deploy ProVation order sets

Southeast Alabama Medical Center has selected health IT company Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation Order Sets to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.

January 14, 2010

Geisinger adopts RelayHealth's patient-payor tool

Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., is implementing health IT company RelayHealth's RevRunner to improve patients' understanding of their health insurance coverage.

January 13, 2010

Virginia provider expands IT package with McKesson

Twin County Regional Hospital, a 141-bed hospital with several affiliated physician practices in Galax, Va., is planning to expand its McKesson Paragon hospital information system to include inpatient and outpatient EHRs in the facilitatation of information sharing between the sites.

January 13, 2010

Siemens nets Sorian deal with N.Y. healthcare system

United Health Services has inked a multi-year agreement with Siemens Healthcare for the installation of its Web-based healthcare information system (HIS), Soarian, into the multi-facility healthcare system.

January 13, 2010

Georgia medical center employs Eclipsys' PeakPractice

Athens Regional Medical Center, a 375-bed regional referral center located in Athens, Ga., has selected Eclipsys' PeakPractice EMR/practice management solution to link patient information with its network of physicians.

January 12, 2010

Sectra inks multi-site PACS deal in Midwest

Medical IT company Sectra has this week been selected as the PACS provider for a Cleveland-based health system, University Hospitals.

January 12, 2010

DR Systems scores nearly $3M in East Coast installs

Imaging and information management system provider DR Systems has inked four new contracts--including two data migration projects--at Jameson Health System in New Castle, Pa., Elizabethtown Diagnostic Imaging in Elizabethtown, Ky., Windber Medical Center in Windber, Pa., and Sacred Heart Hospital in Port St. Joe, Fla.

January 12, 2010

Texas endoscopy center chooses ProVation software

Fort Worth Endoscopy Center in Texas has selected ProVation Medicals ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding, as well as its ProVation EHR and patient charting solution.

January 11, 2010

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Radiology Business

The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business

New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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.

Cardiovascular Business

Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

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.

Management

Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?

Orthopedic trauma reads a 'significant difficulty' for radiology residents

FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology

Clinicians want AI to show its work

Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade

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