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.

Sisters of Charity health system selects eClinicalWorks

The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System hasselected the eClinicalWorks’ EMR and practice management system,along with its Patient Portal for SCLHS’ ambulatory electronic healthrecord initiative.

Alabama health system acquires 25 DICOM units from Foresight Imaging

Baptist Health System of Birmingham, Ala., has installed 25 TIMS DICOMSystems from Foresight Imaging, an developer of imaging devices, in itsvarious hospitals.

Agfa completes Salzburg health system deployment

Agfa HealthCare has completed the installation of its Orbis hospitalinformation system along with its Impax PACS product throughout theSalzburger Landeskliniken healthcare system in Austria.

Amicas nets three contracts

Amicas, a web-based PACS provider, has signed three contracts in Chico,Calif.; Tampa, Fla.; and St. Louis for its Vision Series Financialsproduct.

Two hospitals to join Indiana Health Information Exchange

Howard Regional Health System and St. Joseph Hospital, both located inKokomo, Ind., are positioned to become part of the Indiana HealthInformation Exchange’s clinical messaging service network,called the DOCS4DOCS service.

Siemens upgrades Texas hospital

Siemens Medical Solutions will implement its MedSeries4 healthinformation system, designed to support rural and communityhealthcare providers in IT adoption, at Texas Scottish Rite Hospitalfor Children in Dallas.

L.A. hospital chooses Medseek

Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles has selected Medseek’s ClinicalPortal system to enhance clinical decision-making by simplifying andimproving access to the hospital’s core and ancillary clinical systems,according to the Birmingham, Ala.-based Medseek.

Fry Construction selected for North Texas imaging lab

Fry Construction, a Carrollton, Texas-based firm that specializes inbuilding medical imaging facilities, has begun construction on amedical imaging facility in Sherman, Texas.

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.