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.

California hospital selects Thomson Reuters service to ID high-risk patients

Mercy Merced Medical Center in Merced, Calif., part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, will use the Clinical Xpert CareFocus solution from Thomson Reuters to rapidly identify high-risk patients within the active hospital census.

NHS Trust hospital selects Siemens SPECT/CT system

Bristol Royal Infirmary, part of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, has recently installed a Symbia T16 TruePoint SPECT/CT, a hybrid system that combines a variable-angle, dual detector SPECT with a 16-slice CT, from Siemens Healthcare.

Varian scores Belgian install

Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium, will acquire RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems for modulated arc therapy treatments.

Missouri billing firm selects IMAGINE Software practice management suite

Medical Billing Associates (MBA) of Sedalia, Miss., an anesthesia and radiology practice management and consulting company, has selected IMAGINE Software’s IMAGINEradiology platform as part of its practice management suite.

Providers link HIE to lower costs, improved outcomes

Electronic health information exchange (HIE) between physicians,hospitals, payors and patients is decreasing the cost of care andimproving outcomes, according to a new survey released by thenon-profit eHealth Initiative.

Three hospitals go wireless with IBM services

IBM Enterprise Mobility Services have been deployed at three healthcarefacilities, delivering wireless communications and real-time access topatient records anywhere on the premises.

Hitachi nets Oasis MRI order

Metro Imaging, an outpatient imaging center in St. Louis, has installedHitachi Medical Systems America’s Oasis high-field MRI system.

TomoTherapy scores Italy order

Azienda Ospedaliero - Universitaria di Modena in Modena, Italy, hasselected TomoTherapy’s Hi-Art treatment system to deliver radiationtherapy to cancer patients in the region.

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.