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.

U.K. hospital deploys Siemens digital cath lab

Taunton and Somerset Hospital in England has deployed an Axiom Artis dFC imaging system from Siemens Healthcare in its cardiac cath lab.

Digital Healthcare appointed to NHS Framework contract

The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has appointedDigital Healthcare of Cambridge, England, to its NHS Additional SupplyCapability & Capacity Framework to supply IT products andservices to the NHS.

Three academic medical centers choose eHealth Global

Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, the University of MichiganHealth System, and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences haveselected the eHealthConnect service from eHealth Global to streamlinemedical records management in the solid organ transplant departmentswithin each facility.

Toshiba nets Aquilion install at Boston hospital

Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its Aquilion One dynamicvolume CT system at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teachinghospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Texas hospital develops center for treatment of heart rhythm disorders

St. David’s HealthCare, along with Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, hasdeveloped the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David’sMedical Center in Austin.

California IPA selects NextGen software solutions

Monarch HealthCare, an independent practice associations (IPA) andmedical groups, has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems’suite of enterprise software solutions to enhance the quality of careits member physicians provide.

Middle Eastern hospital implements Cerner health IT solutions

Tawam Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has implementedmultiple Cerner Millennium healthcare IT solutions to automateprocesses in the radiology, pathology, pharmacy, surgery, emergency andscheduling and registration departments.

HealthBridge taps CINA for Ohio data aggregation project

Clinical Integration Networks of America (CINA), a developer ofelectronic solutions, will assist HealthBridge, a large communityhealth information exchange in the United States, in a data extractionand aggregation project to satisfy the requirements of a federallyfunded, community-wide project to be initiated throughout Cincinnati.

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.