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.

Maryland state cancer database deliberately altered

A Maryland state contractor tampered with the state’s cancer registry,a database used by researchers to track the disease's impact, countinghundreds of patients as having cancer when they did not, according to alegislative audit.

Minnesota hospital to deploy MEDHOST ED software

Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, Minn., has selected MEDHOST’ssoftware for its emergency department (ED), as part of itshospital-wide efforts to switch to electronic documentation.

Amicas scores California radiology group install

Arcadia Radiology Medical Group in Arcadia, Calif., will utilize VisionSeries RIS, Vision Reach, Vision Series Financials and InsightDashboards solutions from Amicas.

Carestream to provide digital medical imaging at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Healthcare professionals at the Olympic Village Polyclinic in Beijing,China, will use digital medical and dental imaging systems fromCarestream Health to diagnose injuries and treat health concerns ofathletes and officials during the Summer Olympic Games.

Two health systems choose TheraDoc CDS system

BayCare Health System in Clearwater, Fla., and PeaceHealth healthcaresystem in Bellevue, Wash., have selected electronic surveillance andclinical decision support (CDS) systems provided by TheraDoc.

InSite One scores multiple contracts in first half of 2008

InSite One has added 40 new clients during the first half of 2008.

Florida cancer center treats cancer patient with Varian radiotherapy system

Doctors at Melbourne Internal Medical Associates Cancer Centerin Florida, have begun to treat patients with cancer using RapidArcradiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.

Michigan cancer institute to deploy Eclipsys clinical, revenue cycle suite

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit has signed anagreement to deploy Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise integrated suite ofclinical and revenue cycle applications.

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.