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.

Nashville hospital operator selects athenahealth

Community Health Systems, an operator of general acute-carehospitals, has adopted athenahealth's centrally hosted, practicemanagement and billing service, athenaCollector, for its physicianorganization of more than 300 medical providers.

Wayport helps Virginia health system go wireless

Wayport, a provider of public and private network support andintegration for healthcare facilities, has signed anagreement with Inova Health System to provide wireless internet accessthroughout its five hospital locations. 

eRAD signs RadiServ teleradiology provider

RadiServ of Cambridge, Mass., a U.S. teleradiology provider withphysicians licensed in 44 states, has chosen eRAD to meet thetechnology needs of their physicians and clients.

Konica nets CR contract from South Dakota health system

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging has earned a five year, sole-sourcecontract for CR systems from Sanford Health, in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Elekta to deploy MEG technology in French hospital

Elekta has signed a contract to deliver Elekta Neuromag, the equipmentfor non-invasive registration of nerve cell activity usingmagnetoencephalography (MEG) technology to the new Le Commissariat àl’Energie Atomique (CEA) facility - NeuroSpin in Saclay, France, one ofthe largest research sites for brain imaging in Europe.

Nevada radiology practice selects Zotec billing services

Desert Radiologists of Las Vegas, has contracted Zotec Partners to be its medical billing services provider.

Florida hospital installs Flo Healthcare mobile clinical workstations

All Children’s Hospital has replaced its first round of carts on wheelswith wireless mobile clinical workstations from Flo Healthcare, ofNorcross, Ga.

GE Healthcare deploys first ApexPro FH telemetry system

Memorial Hospital North is the first healthcare institution to deployApexPro FH, a spread-spectrum frequency hopping telemetry system fromGE Healthcare, on its Carescape Enterprise Access in-building wirelessplatform.

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.