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.

McKesson wins radiology billing install

Arrowhead Radiology Medical Group has selected McKesson to manage its revenue cycle operations including billing, accounts receivable management, reporting and account management services.

NextGen to acquire revenue cycle management firm

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems and a provider of ambulatory healthcare information systems, has entered into an agreement to acquire Practice Management Partners (PMP), a healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) company.

Agfa nets large Orbis contract with French hospitals

Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a 95 million ($127.4 million U.S.) contract to install its Orbis clinical workflow and diagnostic technology at 37 hospitals in France.

Quantum scores DR install in N.Y.

Quantum Medical Imaging has completed an installation of its single-panel PQ Digital Radiographic System which included a Canon digital panel at Windsong Radiology Groups new imaging center located in Hamburg, N.Y.

Teleradiology dives into online auction pool

Houston radiologist Daniel Roubein, MD, has launched the Telerays network, a website where teleradiology interpretations will be auctioned off to the lowest bidder.

California medical center deploys Data Distributing DISCO

Saddleback Memorial Medical Center of Laguna Hills, Calif., has installed Digital Secure Copy (DISCO) from Data Distributing.

Illinois hospital automates medication process with McKesson IT solution

Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Ill., has installed a barcode-based, closed-loop system from McKesson to automate the 183-bed hospitals medication-use process.

First Coast Oncology offers AccuBoost breast cancer radiotherapy

First Coast Oncology will install AccuBoosts breast cancer radiotherapy system in its Mandarin office and anticipates that the first patient will be treated in early November.

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.