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.

Elekta Synergy S added to Johns Hopkins cancer treatment lineup

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Schoolof Medicine in Baltimore added an Elekta Synergy S system to itsLeksell Gamma Knife capability.

Siemens Soarian live at Brookhaven

Siemens Medical Solutions reported that the 321-bed Brookhaven MemorialHospital Medical Center of East Patchogue, N.Y., has implemented itsSoarian Clinical healthcare information system.

MedQuist inks remote coding deal with VHA Texas

Electronic medical transcription, health information, and documentmanagement products and services firm MedQuist of Mt. Laurel, N.J.,announced that it has signed an agreement for remote medical recordscoding with supply chain management services group VHA Texas.

North Dakota contracts Initiate Systems for MDM deployment

North Dakota grants Initiate Systems a contract to implement a newmaster client index (MCI) as part of the State’s conversion to a newmedicaid management information system (MMIS), enabling real-time viewsof data spread across multiple systems and databases.

Philips deploys SpeechMagic at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Philips Speech Recognition Systems of Vienna, Austria, said that its SpeechMagictechnology is now being utilized in the largest front-end speechrecognition site in the United Kingdom’s healthcare sector, theAberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI).

PACSHealth wins Australian contract

PACS monitoring and reporting tools developer PACSHealth of Scottsdale,Ariz., reported that it has signed an agreement to install itsPACSHealth system at hospitals in the South Eastern Sydney IllawarraArea Health Service (SESIAHS) in Australia.

Orions Rhapsody broadens NHS connectivity

Orion Health, an Auckland, New Zealand-based developer of integrationand clinical workflow technology, said that its Rhapsody IntegrationEngine continues to be adopted by National Health Service (NHS) Trustsin the United Kingdom.

eHGT adds to customer roster

Medical record service provider eHealth Global Technologies (eHGT) ofRochester, N.Y., reported that it has signed contracts with theUniversity of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Va.; TheNebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb.; and Albert Einstein HealthcareNetwork in Philadelphia to provide its eHealthConnect service.

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.