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.

Blue Cross of Florida selects e-billing service

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, a healthcare providerserving approximately 4.1 million members, has chosen Benefitfocus toprovide web-based billing services and invoice consolidation for itsgroup operations.

Agfa adds to Orbis installs

Agfa HealthCare is currently introducing its Orbis hospital informationsystem in the Rangauklinik Ansbach, a medical rehabilitationcenter, near Nuremberg, Germany.

BSD nets placement at Northeast Radiation Oncology

Oncology treatment device developer BSD Medical said that NortheastRadiation Oncology Center in Scranton, Pa., has purchased and installedthe Salt Lake City-based firm’s BSD-500 hyperthermia therapy system.

Siemens equips Raleigh radiology center

Siemens Medical Solutions has installed its Magnetom Espree, anopen-bore 1.5-Tesla MRI system at Raleigh Radiology Cedarhurst in N.C.

Renaissance Imaging to provide imaging services to Valley Presbyterian

Renaissance Imaging Medical Associates has partnered withVanowen Radiology to provide sub-specialized diagnostics for ValleyPresbyterian Hospital’s Departments of Imaging Services.

California childrens hospital opts for NeuroLogica scanner

NeuroLogica has installed a CereTom CT scanner at the Children’s Hospital& Research Center Oakland in Calif., which will allow hospitaltechnologists to take a CT scan of a child’s brain at their bedside,according to the based medical equipment developer.

Orion Health integration system chosen by Indiana hospital

Marion General Hospital in Marion, Ind., has selected OrionHealth’s Rhapsody integration engine to manage message exchanges from acentral system.

Hawaii Medicare extends contract with ACS

Hawaii Department of Human Services' Med-QUEST Division has extendedits contract with Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a businessprocess outsourcing and IT provider, to continue providing fiscal agentand pharmacy benefits management services to the state's Medicaidprogram.

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.