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.

N.H. hospital deploys GE EMR

St. Joseph Hospital has expanded its relationship with GE Healthcare through the selection of GE's Centricity EMR.

Medicaid/Medicare rapid learning network could cut costs, find better treatments

A group of health policy experts is calling on Congress and the Obama administration to support the development of a rapid learning network that would share clinical information on Medicare and Medicaid patients to learn what medical treatments work best.

VHA to deploy McKesson financial decision support software

McKesson has signed a three-year agreement with VHA to provide the alliance with its McKesson Performance Analytics software as an enterprise business intelligence solution.

Illinois hospital chooses Eclipsys for revenue cycle software

Eclipsys has entered an agreement with long-term client Blessing Hospital to deploy its Sunrise Enterprise revenue cycle solutions.

GE scores $63M per year from defense department for patient monitoring

GE Healthcarehas beenawarded two 10-year contractsby the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) that have a reported value of $63 million annually.

Detecting second breast cancers early with mammo halves risk of death

Mammography is more sensitive than a clinical examination for the early detection of subsequent breast tumors in women who have already had the disease, according to an interntationalstudy published online today in the Annals of Oncology.

AMIC counters MedPAC imaging report

The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) released new data analysis Monday countering recommendations from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which has called for significant cuts in physician reimbursement rates for advanced medical imaging procedures.

Ohio State selects McKesson revenue software

Ohio State University's Pathology Services has chosen McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions to tap into a previously dormant source of revenue.

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.