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.

West Virginia hospital deploys Medsphere EHR system

Medsphere Systems, a provider of open-source healthcare IT solutions,has implemented its OpenVista EHR system at John Manchin Sr. HealthCare Center, a 41-bed, long-term care facility and outpatient clinic inFairmont, W.Va.

Cerner nets EMR install at Abu Dhabi hospital

The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company has implemented an EMR from Cerner at Tawam Hospital in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to automate processes across the hospital.

IntelliDOT wins N.C. install

Halifax Regional Medical Center, a 206-bed hospital in Roanoke Rapids,N.C., has implemented the Bedside Medication Administration fromIntelliDOT, a provider of wireless handheld, barcode point-of-caresolutions to hospitals.

Siemens launches U.K. MR collaboration, scientific support team

Siemens Healthcare has created a new MR collaboration and scientificsupport team to support the development of collaboration partnershipswith researchers in the United Kingdom to further clinical andmethodological MR development.

Iowa hospital selects McKesson HIS, EHR

Marengo Memorial Hospital will deploy McKesson’s Paragon communityhospital information system (HIS) as part of a plan to use technologyto improve patient care in its largely rural serviceregion.

Radiology group installs first PEM scanner in New York City

Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology will be the first imaging facility inNew York City to offer positron emission mammography (PEM) to image anddiagnose early-stage breast cancers, utilizing the PEM Flex scannerfrom Naviscan.

Imaging center to expand Florida operations

Axcess Medical Imaging, headquartered in Sarasota, Fla., will open anew 55,000 square foot Axcess Medical Center in the next 18 months inNorthport, Fla.

New coding credential released for interventional radiologists

The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) has released a newcredential, the Certified Interventional Radiology Cardiovascular Coder(CIRCC), to help navigate through coding change and decreasereimbursement and compliance errors.

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.