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.

Benefitfocus automates CareFirst enrollment process

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield has selected Benefitfocus Technology’seEnrollment software to streamline the mid-market and small groupenrollment process for more than 3.1 million CareFirst members.

Novation awards 33 cardiovascular contracts

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

dbMotion extends French regional interoperability platform

Medical information integration application developer dbMotion has beenselected to provide an interoperability platform to extend the existingParis-based Franche-Comté regional health information exchange, whichis based on the region’s shared medical record system.

CPU adds six new contracts

CPU Medical Management Systems, a medical billing and practicemanagement software system provider, has added six new customers to itsMED/FM client base.

IDC equips British Columbia health network

Vancouver Island Health Authority will replace its current CRsystems with Imaging Dynamics Company’s (IDC) line of X-Series directdigital x-ray technology.

E&C implements EHR into Philadelphia neonatal hospital

Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia will implement an EHRsystem for obstetrics from E&C Medical Intelligence of New YorkCity.

DoD selects SAIC to manage IT for deployed troops

The Department of Defense (DoD) has contracted Science ApplicationInternational (SAIC) for a $38 million task order to support theTheater Medical Information Program-Joint for U.S. militaryforces deployed overseas.

Carestream nets Finnish install

The private Suomen Terveystalo OOyj screening service in Finland, isinstalling Kodak’s Directview CR systems with mammography fromCarestream Health.

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.