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

GE HealthCare designed the new-look Revolution Vibe CT scanner to help hospitals and health systems embrace CCTA and improve overall efficiency.

Clinicians have been using HeartSee to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease since the technology first debuted back in 2018. These latest updates, set to roll out to existing users, are designed to improve diagnostic performance and user access.

The cardiac technologies clinicians use for CVD evaluations have changed significantly in recent years, according to a new analysis of CMS data. While some modalities are on the rise, others are being utilized much less than ever before.