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.

Atirix to offer speech technologies with Provox acquisition

Atirix Medical Systems, a Minneapolis-based medical software provider,has purchased Provox, a voice recognition software provider that willbe operated as a division of Atirix.

Siemens furnishes London hospital with Somatom CT scanner

BMI The London Independent Hospital has installed the United Kingdom’s first Somatom Definition AS+ CT scanner from Siemens.

QuadraMed signs $10.6M deal with Saudi National Guard

Saudi Arabia National Guard Health Affairs in Riyadh, SaudiArabia, has signed a $10.6 million contract with QuadraMed for itsQuadraMed CPR service expansion, migration to InterSystem'sCache database and interface licenses.

NightRays wins regional VHA teleradiology contract

The Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA)Oklahoma/Arkansas regional office has selected NightRays as itspreferred provider for teleradiology services.

CMS audit program 'RACs' up millions in overpayments; Congress probes

Recovery audit contractors (RACs) hired by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have recouped more than $1 billion in Medicare improper payments to providers, according to a CMS report.

CompuMed nets extended ECG contracts with state correctional depts.

CompuMed, a healthcare informatics company, has extended its contractswith the state correctional departments in Iowa and Wyoming to continueproviding electrocardiogram (ECG) remote interpretation systems andservices.

AMS nets 19 PACS orders in two months

American Medical Sales (AMS) took orders for 19 PACS sites via its distributor network during May and June of this year.

Emageon wins two HealthNet installs

HealthNet, a technology joint venture, has chosen to install the RadSuite product from Emageon at Glendive Medical Center in Glendive, Mont., and Sidney Health Center in Sidney, Mont.

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.