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.

MedHost notches Bermuda sales

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has introduced MedHosts emergency department information system at its King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the new Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre at Paget Parish and St. David's, Bermuda, respectively.

Radiology: Radiologists reluctant to disclose mammo errors to patients

Radiologists may be reluctant to disclose mammography errors to patients, according to the results of a survey published in the November issue of Radiology.

JACR: More inpatient imaging could lower hospital mortality rates

Hospitals that more frequently use inpatient imaging exams could achieve lower in-hospital mortality rates, according to a study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

CDC taps GE to monitor H1N1 activity

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected GE Healthcare to monitor H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity within the United States.

Radiology: Rads' recommendations for further imaging double since 1995

Radiologists were twice as likely to recommend additional imaging in diagnostic reports in 2008 than they were in 1995, based on a single-center study in the November issue of Radiology.

Orlando facility installs Siemens CT scanner

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Fla., has installed a Siemens Healthcare Somatom Definition Flash dual-source CT scanner.

QuadraMed scores four new EHR clients

Healthcare technology developer QuadraMed has announced that three health systems in the U.S., and one Toronto-based healthcare organization have licensed its EHR product, QuadraMed CPR.

N.J. provider adopts GEs hospital workflow solution

Virtua Healthcare in Marlton, N.J., is adopting GE Healthcares AgileTrac Asset Manager and Enterprise Capacity Management Solution, an automated workflow solution that allows healthcare staff to track a patients inpatient experience, as well as manage the hospitals assets.

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.