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.

Capital Healthcare, CDP Medical integrate CVIS, PACS

Capital Healthcare Solutions and CDP Medical have integrated CardioDx, Capitals cardiovascular information system (CVIS) with CDP Medical Ensemble, CDPs diagnostic imaging and PACS.

CodeRyte secures $13 million equity financing

CodeRyte, a computer-assisted coding and Natural Language Processing company, has obtained $13 million of expansion capital from a new investor, Versant Ventures.

Virtual Radiologic to provide teleradiology services for VHA members

Virtual Radiologic, a provider of teleradiology services, has signed a multi-year agreement with VHA, a U.S. healthcare alliance, to be the single-source provider of teleradiology services for VHA's 1,429 community-based hospital members.

Tufts chooses eClinicalWorks as EMR, PM provider

Tufts Medical Center and the New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA), the physician network of Tufts, have selected eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management (PM) software, placing the system in the academic and community settings.

Tennessee health system to exchange patient data with ICA platform

MidSouth eHealth Alliance will transition from Vanderbilt Medical Centers technology platform to Informatics Corporation of Americas (ICA) commercial version of the solution to support the ongoing exchange of patient data throughout Shelby County and two adjoining counties in west Tennessee.

Carestream wins new CR, DR orders

Carestream Health has received several orders for its digital medical imaging solutions that include mobile, tabletop and CR systems, as well as DR systems.

Amirsys

Amirsys (Booth 2801) is featuring its new STATdx premier integrated diagnostic decision support system, which includes all the features of standard STATdx.

Siemens Healthcare

Siemens Healthcare (Booth 922) is presenting new IT products and software versions at this years RSNA.

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.