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.

Brooklyn Hospital chooses Eclipsys

Dec. 7 – The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) in New York City willimplement Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager, including the modulesSunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Critical Care,Sunrise Emergency Care, Sunrise Pharmacy and Sunrise Knowledge-BasedMedication Administration.

HMS to supply InterMedical with IT infrastructure

Dec. 6 – InterMedical Hospital, a 35-bed acute care facility inColumbia, S.C., has selected Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) tosupply a full suite of financial software.

CareSpark taps Wellogic for physician portal

Dec. 6 – CareSpark has chosen Wellogic, a physician portal andelectronic medical records software company, to provide a unified viewof patient data exchanged via CareSpark’s health information exchangeand connected electronic health records systems, using Wellogic’sConsult physician portal.

Massachusetts medical center goes paperless with Biscom

Dec. 6 – North Shore Medical Center, a regional healthcare provider inMassachusetts, has implemented Biscom’s Faxcom Image Indexing solutionto transition their central scheduling process to a paperless workflow.

FAA purchases CompuMeds ECG machines

Dec. 6 – CompuMed has begun shipping its CardioGram enhancedelectrocardiogram (ECG) systems to Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Senior Aviation Medical Examiners (Sr. AME).

Colorado Hospital implements GE Centricity

Dec. 5 – The University of Colorado Hospital has gone live with GEHealthcare’s Centricity preoperative system to streamline surgicalservices across five business segments.

IBA inks Saudi Arabian contract

Dec. 5 – Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has sold a Cyclone 30 to the KingFaisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, in Riyadh, SaudiArabia, for the production of imaging radioisotopes.

Mississippi medical center chooses NovaRad

Dec. 5 – Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland, Miss., has signed a contract to install NovaRad’s NovaPACS.

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.