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.

Georgia hospital deploys HP archive solution

Gwinnett Medical Center has installed HP's Medical Archive Solution to help manage its growth of digitized medical information.

ACS signs $100M IS deal with Massachusetts health system

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has received a five-year contract,totaling $100 million, with UMass Memorial Health Care, a Worcester,Mass.-based hospital system, to provide information systems (IS)services.

MEDSEEK nets 15 new contracts

MEDSEEK, a provider of enterprise portal connectivity services, has signed 15 new U.S. and Canadian hospital customers.

TomoTherapy scores Swedish install

The TomoTherapy Hi-Art treatment system will be installed at Lund University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.

ACS scores $4M New Orleans EMS contract to electronically capture patient data

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has won a $4 million contract to provideelectronic patient records capture for the New Orleans emergencymedical services (EMS) agency.

Park City Healthcare chooses iMedica EHR, PM technology

Park City Healthcare in Utah has chosen iMedica's EHR and practicemanagement (PM) application, the iMedica Patient Relationship Manager.

CodeRyte signs two radiology billing companies

ADVOCATE Radiology Billing and Reimbursement Specialists and RMIPhysician Services have entered into multi-year agreements to continueand expand their use of CodeRyte’s services for radiology coding.

Kansas selects NovaRad PACS

Graham County Hospital in Hill City, Kan., has selected NovaRad’sNovaPACS to access studies between the hospital and radiologist groupsthat read for the hospital.

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.