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.

athenahealths management services win contract

The Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM)will offer athenahealth’s on-demand practice management service,athenaCollector, and its EMR services to PAHCOM members to improvephysician practice workflow and reimbursement, according to theWatertown, Mass.-based athenahealth.

Allscripts adds Southwestern Medical to client roster

Healthcare information system developer Allscripts said thatSouthwestern Medical Clinic in Berrien Springs, Mich., has selected theChicago-based firm to provide EHR and practice management systems forthe practice.

NeuroLogica scores Colts contract

NeuroLogica announced that the Indianapolis Colts of the NationalFootball League (NFL), in partnership with Clarian Health Partners,will adopt its CereTom portable CT scanner for on-site rapid assessmentand diagnosis of head injuries during the 2007 NFL season.

Palmer College of Chiropractic acquires six Agfa CR systems

Agfa HealthCare reported that Palmer College of Chiropractic hasacquired six of its computed radiology (CR) systems, including four CR35-X systems and two CR 30-X systems.

NYCLIX contracts First Consulting Group for HIE improvements

Regional health information organization NYCLIX announced the formationof a contract with First Consulting Group (FCG) for its FirstGatewaystechnology.

G2 nets South Wales MediSpeech deployment

Speech recognition technology provider G2 Speech of London hasintegrated its MediSpeech product with an Agfa HealthCare PACS in theradiology department at the Cardiff and Vale National Health Service Trust.

Three Toronto hospitals contract Thinking Systems for PACS services

The Joint Department of Medical Imaging for University Health Network,Mount Sinai Hospital and Women’s College Hospital of Toronto haspurchased ThinkingPACS services from St. Petersburg-based RIS and PACSdeveloper Thinking Systems.

Toshiba places Infinix installations at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta

Toshiba America Medical Systems said it has installed of two InfinixCF-i/BP vascular x-ray systems at the Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaSibley Heart Center, located at the Egleston hospital campus.

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.