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.

Allscripts adds Frankford to client roster

Allscripts, a Chicago-based provider of clinical software andinformation systems, reported that Frankford Health Care System hasselected its electronic health record (EHR) and practice management(PM) products to automate and connect clinical and administrativeprocesses for 100 physicians.

PowerScribe achieves millennial placement

Speech recognition developer Nuance Communications reported that it hasmarked the 1,000th deployment of its Dictaphone PowerScribe applicationfor radiology.

UltraSPECT marks 100th U.S. install

Nuclear medicine device developer UltraSPECT reported that the Haifa,Israel-based firm has achieved its 100th product installation in theU.S.

MyMedicalRecords.com adds Alexian Brothers to client roster

Alexian Brothers Hospital Network (ABHN) of Arlington Heights, Ill.,has entered into a service agreement with MyMedicalRecords.com (MMR), aLos Angeles-based provider of online personal health records (PHR).

Allscripts signs Iowa Health System

Healthcare information systems developer Allscripts has been selectedto provide its emergency department information system (EDIS) to theIowa Health System of Des Moines, Iowa.

Dynamic Imaging inks 22 new Q2 PACS contracts

Image and information management developer Dynamic Imaging said that itsigned 22 new contracts for its IntegradWeb PACS product during thesecond quarter this year.

Eclipsys extends UPHS contract

Healthcare informatics development firm Eclipsys has signed a newcontract extending its current agreement with the University ofPennsylvania Health System (UPHS) in Philadelphia.

Design Do's for the Imaging Department

Technology, staff and patients have seeming divergent needs in a modern medical imaging facility. Whether in a hospital or an outpatient facility, advances in digital imaging have made the challenge the movement of people as well as the images.

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.