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.

Houston ED to use Patient Care Technologys tracking system

Emergency Health Centre in Houston has implemented the Amelior EDpatient tracking and charting system from Patient Care TechnologySystems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering of Mission Viejo,Calif.

Michigan Blue Cross to implement IT updates

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is planning to expand itshealthcare electronic data interchange clearinghouse and portal, whichadministers health benefits to more than 4.6 million members residingin Michigan.

Greenway Medical supplies EHR system for Mercy Health Partners

Greenway Medical Technologies, an ambulatory health IT provider, willimplement an application service provider-hosted EHR system foraffiliated physicians and physicians' practices of Mercy HealthPartners, a health network in Southwestern Ohio.

CareTech enhances IT at Ohio health system

Blanchard Valley Health System of Findlay, Ohio, has implementedVocera communications badges among its nurses, as well as aninteractive internet and email system from CareTech Solutions, an ITand health information management services provider for hospitals andhealthcare systems.

Sandia labs implement Allscripts EHR product

Sandia National Laboratories of Albuquerque, N.M., has deployedAllscripts’ integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practicemanagement software at its medical clinic.

MedHost provides software for Montana emergency department

MedHost, a medical software services provider, has automated theemergency department of Kalispell Regional Medical Center inKalispell, Mont. with its emergency department information system full-suite software.

Toshiba equips new $38 million Pennsylvania medical center

In a few weeks, the Fulton County Medical Center ofMcConnellsburg, Pa., will complete its new $37.5 million facility, butToshiba is already providing its diagnostic technologies.

Zonare updates central California health system

Memorial Medical Center, a regional healthcare provider, has installedtwo z.one ultrasound systems from Zonare Medical Systems in the center’s radiology department.

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.