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.

N.J. hospital installs Medtronic O-Arm imaging system

Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health CareSystem, has implemented the O-Arm imaging system, a devicethat can take CT scan images of the body during surgery, manufacturedby Breakaway Imaging and distributed by Medtronic.

Siemens expands adaptive radiation therapy global reach

Three cancer centers have deployed Siemens Healthcare’s Artistesolution, an accelerator engineered for adaptive radiationtherapy.

Spanish hospital selects iSoft, SpeechMagic to create single clinical office

The Nuestra Señora de Fátima Hospital in Vigo, Spain, is using theiSoft hospital information system x-HIS as a global solution formanaging clinical and administrative patient information to support andoptimize its hospital management model.

New website launched about imaging center information

RemakeHealth has gone live with an online resource to find a localimaging center, request appointments for radiology tests and look upmedical imaging prices.

U.K. hospital center furnishes cath lab with Siemens, Stereotaxis systems

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, a U.K. specialist heart and lung center, has deployed a Siemens Axiom Artis dFC angiography system in the magnetic navigation catheter lab at Royal Brompton Hospital in London. The hospital has also installed a Niobe Magnetic Guidance System with Navigant and an Odyssey network system from Stereotaxis. 

PeaceHealth chooses OrthoView for system-wide implementation

PeaceHealth has selected OrthoView software for six facilities within the Bellevue, Wash.-based healthcare system.

Two BlueCross plans select TriZetto?s claims software

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and Blue Cross andBlue Shield of Rhode Island have chosen the TriZetto Group’sreal-time patient liability and point-of-service claims adjudicationsoftware, Provider POS Direct.

Physicians have new weapon to guard against delayed payments

Physicians are spending up to 14 percent of their total collections to obtain accurate payment for their services, but health insurers and other third-party payors may still inappropriately delay, deny or significantly reduce payments. In response, the American Medical Association (AMA) has created a report card to grade health insurers on how quickly and accurately physicians receive payment.

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.