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.

New Jersey pediatric group selects Sages EHR

Dec. 5 – Somerset Pediatric Group, an 18-physician, five-siteorganization, has selected Intergy from Sage Software, for thepractice’s EHR system.

Ohio hospital chooses CareTech

Dec. 4—The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has signed a multi-year, IT infrastructure outsourcing contract with CareTechSolutions, a healthcare IT and health information management servicesprovider for hospitals and health systems.

California health network selects eClinicalWorks

Dec. 4—Redwood Community Health Coalition has purchased licensesof eClinicalWorks unified EMRs and practice management solution, alongwith Patient Portal and eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange for10 community health centers operating 18 sites of care.

Aethon RFID robots installed in 10 VA hospitals

Dec. 3—Ten Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals will use radiofrequency identification (RFID) robots from Aethon, designed to helptrack and deliver supplies.

Southern health system deploys EMC solution

Dec. 3—Wellmont Health System has deployed EMC’s informationinfrastructure software to manage its library of digital medical imagessuch as x-rays, ultrasounds and MRIs.

Imaging On Call signs with Caritas Healthcare

Dec. 3—Imaging On Call, a teleradiology provider, has signed acontract with St. John’s Caritas Healthcare, which operates St. John’sHospital and Mary Immaculate Hospital, both in Queens, NY.

LiveData offers dashboard view of ORs for New York hospital

Dec. 3—New York-Presbyterian Hospital has deployed LiveData's visually integrated operating room system in four operating rooms at two of its major medical centers: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

NYU Medical Center selects OrthoView software

Dec. 3—New York University (NYU) Medical Center in New York City hasselected OrthoView’s version 5.0 software, an orthopaedic digitalplanning solution.

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.