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.

Texas healthcare system deploys multiple Eclipsys apps

United Regional Health Care System (URHCS), a cardiac care facility and Level III trauma center in Wichita Falls, Texas, has activated a range of Eclipsys clinical solutions.

Scottish emergency department installs Xograph DR system

The accident and emergency (A&E) department at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, has installed Xoagraph Healthcares dDR general radiography system.

Kaleida taps TeraRecon iNtuition for advanced viz

Kaleida Health, headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., has purchased the entire suite of Aquarius iNtuition technologies under TeraRecon's iNtuition Unlimited program.

New Jersey health system to use Sage EHRs

South Jersey Healthcare (SJH), a healthcare system offering hospital services, ambulatory care services and home healthcare services to the residents of Southern New Jersey, has chosen Sage Intergy EHR system for physicians through eHealth Connection, SJH's EHR Grant Program.

Ohio hospital deploys Medseek enterprise-wide portals

Marion General Hospital (MGH) in Marion, Ohio, has selected Medseek to develop and implement enterprise-wide physician, patient, consumer and employee portals over the next two years.

California lab upgrades Aspyra LIS, implements new module

Aspyra has entered into an agreement with Diamond Reference Laboratory (DRL) to upgrade DRLs existing LIS to version 7.2 of Aspyras CyberLAB laboratory information system (LIS), as well as implement the CyberPATH anatomic pathology module.

CSC nabs $265M contract from N.C. HHS

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (N.C. DHHS) has contracted with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to replace the state's current Medicaid Management Information System with a new healthcare administration system that will manage other state agency health services in addition to Medicaid.

MedCurrent inks Pueblo Radiology contract

Pueblo Radiology Medical Group has signed a deal with MedCurrent, a provider of physician practice management solutions, to use the firms web-based insurance eligibility verification tool, MedCurrent Verify, at its imaging centers in California.

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.