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.

The Votes Are In: Yea for Speech in U.S. Capital & Beyond

Speech recognition is adding more fans. It has hit the tipping point with excellent accuracy rates, few bugs and smooth implementation.

Subspecialty Reading Services: Quality Reads Peace of Mind 24/7

The demand for subspecialty expertise has skyrocketed in the past few years with clinicians looking for fast, precise, in-depth reporting.

Editor's Note: Is More Better?

When it comes to multidetector CT, yes. The recently released CorE 64 Study resultsshowed 64-slice CT matches cardiac catheterization in the primarydiagnosis of cardiovascular disease and disorders.

Neurognostics nets East and West Coast installs

Neurognostics, a Milwaukee-based medical imaging company, will install its functional MRI system at Hoag Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., and the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, N.Y.

CORE Orthopaedic Medical selects SRSsoft

CORE Orthopaedic Medical Center has selected SRSsoft Clinical Manager to ease the transition to a paperless chart environment.

California Medical licenses Zotec Partners

California Medical Business Services of Arcadia, Calif., has licensed the Electronic Billing Center and RIS software from Zotec Partners, a software firm providing medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices.

Medipattern nets Italian install

General Hospital in Gorizia, Italy, has installed Medipattern’s B-CAD 2.0.

Midlands Orthopedics goes live with AccessMED PACS

Midlands Orthopedics, P.A. has implemented the latest version of Aspyra’s AccessMED PACS version 6.2.

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.