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.

Imagine Software adds billing company to roster

Billing and collection services company, the Power One, has selected medical business management solutions provider Imagine Softwares Imagineradiology practice management platform for employment in its operation.

Molina Healthcare protects data using dataguise

Molina Healthcare of Long Beach, Calif., has deployed dataguises dgmasker and dgdiscover for data security in more than 100 training, development and testing environments.

DR Systems nets $2.4M in RIS/PACS contracts

Imaging and information management system provider DR Systems has contracted with eight healthcare facilities across the U.S. to install its Unity RIS/PACS.

ASCO chooses R.I. hospital as breast cancer registry pilot site

The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., has been selected by American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to be included in its national Breast Cancer Registry Pilot Program.

DoJ, HHS beef up Medicare fraud strike force

After an attempt by 30 people to submit over $61 million in false Medicare claims, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DoJ) have teamed up to augment current task force operations under the Healthcare Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team.

Los Angeles provider switches PACS with Infinitt's help

Los Angeles-based Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has selected Infinitt North America's Infinitt PACS to replace its image and information management system.

Siemens nets Cape Cod HIS deal

Cape Cod Healthcare, a healthcare system consisting of two hospitals, more than 450 physicians and multiple health programs in Cape Cod, Mass., has signed a seven-year contract with Siemens Healthcare for the implementation of its health information system (HIS), Soarian.

Johns Hopkins selects Digisonics for cardiac study

The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study performed at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore will utilize Digisonics DigiView Image Management and Reporting System to record study data.

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.