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.

MGH expands OR dashboard from LiveData

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has expanded its deployment ofLiveData’s OR-Dashboard, and incorporated its functionality into plansfor future OR design, construction and renovation.

ACS nets $130 million Alaskan contract

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has chosenAffiliated Computer Services (ACS) to design, develop, implement andoperate a new Medicaid management information system.

CMS chooses Citizant for business modernization

Citizant, a Chantilly, Va.-based provider of business and technicalsolutions to civilian and military government organizations, has won a$1 million contract to support enterprise architecture development atthe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Hologic, Kubtec partner on training

Women’s imaging vendor Hologic and Kub Technologies (Kubtec) havealigned to offer stereotactic breast biopsy technology training at theDavid Ellenbogen Center for Health Sciences Education in Bedford, Mass.

Hansen places Sensei system at St. Davids

Hansen Medical, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of medicalrobotics for positioning, manipulation and control of catheters andcatheter-based technologies, has installed its Sensei robotic cathetersystem and Artisan Control catheter technology at St. David’s MedicalCenter in Austin, Texas.

Belgian hospital extends contract with Carestream

Saint Luc Bouge Hospital, a private teaching hospital in Bouge,Belgium, has extended its PACS and CR systems contract with CarestreamHealth.

United Arab Emirates health services choose InfoLogix

The General Authority for Health Services in the United Arab Emirates,in partnership with Itqan, a business systems integrator, has chosenInfoLogix to provide a mobile healthcare technology computing platformin Abu Dhabi.

Novation awards cardiovascular product contracts

Novation, a healthcare contracting services provider of the healthcarealliances VHA and the University HealthSystem Consortium, has awarded33 multi-source agreements for cardiovascular products to itscardiovascular portfolio.

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.