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.

Ohio health system selects Siemens hospital information system

EMH Regional Healthcare System has signed a contract with SiemensHealthcare to implement the Soarian hospital information systemthroughout all of its facilities.

California IPA selects NextGen software solutions

Monarch HealthCare, an independent practice association (IPA) andmedical group, has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems’suite of enterprise software solutions to enhance the quality of patient care.

Swedish hospital selects Varian linear accelerators

Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, will offer cancer patientsradiotherapy treatments using three RapidArc systems from VarianMedical Systems.

Two Ohio imaging centers choose NovaRad PACS

Central Ohio Primary Care in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, and Radiology inRowell, Ohio, have selected NovaRad’s NovaPACS imaging technology.

ACS expands Medicaid presence with $156M Tennessee contract

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has signed a $156 million, five-yearcontract with the state of Tennessee, expanding its Medicaidpresence to include 14 states and the Washington, D.C.

ScImage nets three-year Broadlane PACS contract

ScImage, an enterprise imaging informatics company, has been awarded athree-year contract with Broadlane for its multi-department PACS forradiology, cardiology and other image-producing departments.

Minnesota children?s hospital chooses Medicalis for CDS

Minnesota Children's Hospital has selected Medicalis, a provider ofclinical decision support (CDS) solutions, to enhance and enable itsdiagnostic imaging ordering process.

Aspyra nets Elite Lab Services LIS install

Aspyra has contracted with Elite Lab Services, an independent clinicalreference laboratory in Tyler, Texas, to provide Aspyra’s CyberLabLaboratory Information System (LIS).

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.