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.

Ingenix to provide EDI services for Aetna

Ingenix, a health IT company, has signed two agreements with Aetna to provide electronic data interchange (EDI) services.

Carestream nabs VA install

Carestream Health has secured a multi-million-dollar order with theVeterans Health Administration’s New England region, also known asVeterans Integrated Systems Network 1, for its healthcare ITsystems.

Siemens to implement EPR system in German health system

Siemens Medical Solutions will implement up to one million web-basedelectronic patient records (EPRs) per year for the patients of RhoenKlinikum, a German private hospital group.

Cambio deploys EPRs throughout a southern Swedish county

Kronoberg County in the south of Sweden has chosen Cambio's Cosmic todeploy integrated electronic patient records to all authorizedhealth professionals.

Bronx RHIO bulks up membership

The addition of St. Barnabas Hospital and the Visiting Nurse Service ofNew York amounts to 11 corporate members for the Bronx regional healthinformation organization (RHIO).

IT companies help with new DRG prep

Ingenix, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., has entered into a strategicpartnership with Precyse Solutions in Wayne, Pa., to provide hospitalswith a package of services to help prepare for Medicare’s newseverity-adjusted diagnosis-related groups.

Auroras MRI system added to N.J. hospital

Aurora Imaging Technology of North Andover, Mass., has implemented theAurora 1.5 Tesla dedicated breast MRI system at Englewood Hospital andMedical Center in New Jersey.

IDCs Latin American shipments hit 50

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC), a digital radiography technologycompany, has recently completed its 50th shipment of its charge-coupleddevice-based DR technology to Latin America.

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.