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.

Cincinnati ER to use Toshiba AquilionOne CT system

Greater Cincinnati area residents and patients of St. Elizabeth MedicalCenter will soon have access to the AquilionOne from Toshiba AmericaMedical Systems.

Alabama non-profit hospital deploys GE Centricity Enterprise

Huntsville Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital in Huntsville, Ala., hasimplemented version 6.1 of GE's Centricity EnterpriseSolution to integrate patients’ clinical information into one EHR.

Florida clinic chooses athenahealth practice management, billing service

Suncoast Medical Clinic, a multi-specialty medical group, will bereplacing its web-hosted practice management system with athenahealth’son-demand practice management and billing service, athenaCollector.

Merge provides off-site disaster recovery service

Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging solutions company, has launched its Managed Services initiative, which includes Merge Off-Site Disaster Recovery, providing HIPAA compliant backup of radiology images and information.

California hospital activates Eclipsys EMR

The Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, Calif., has activated integrated modules of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Clinical Manager system, an integrated EMR.

London hospital uses Hansen robotics to repair an aortic aneurysm

A team led by Nick Cheshire, MD, from St. Mary's Hospital, part of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, have utilized Hansen Medical’s Sensei robotic catheter system and Artisan control catheter to deploy stent grafts to treat an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a 78-year old patient.

Docs, payors say ICD-10 timetable is recipe for disaster

While the ICD-10 code set has the potential to transform the healthcaresystem, the three-year timeframe proposed by the Department of Healthand Human Services (HHS) is not long enough to make a successfultransition, according to physicians and health insurers.

Docs, payors say ICD-10 timetable is recipe for disaster

While the ICD-10 code set has the potential to transform the healthcare system, the three-year timeframe proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is not long enough to make a successful transition, according to physicians and health insurers.

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.