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.

Editor's Note: Connected at the Top

For organizations in the business of healthcare, IT is the enabler for both better care and fiscal fitness.

Siemens signs Partners to Soarian deal

Siemens Medical Solutions and Partners HealthCare of Boston said thatPartners will implement Siemens’ Soarian Financials patientadministration and revenue cycle management system across itshealthcare enterprise.

Allscripts signs Butler Health

Healthcare informatics developer Allscripts announced that ButlerHealth System (BHS) of Butler, Pa., has selected the Chicago-based firmas its provider of an emergency department information system (EDIS)for Butler Memorial Hospital as well as an electronic health record(EHR) for their physician practices.

Lynx inks Summa Health System deal

Emergency medicine documentation and revenue management system developer Lynx Medical Systems said that it has signed an agreement with Summa Health System of Akron, Ohio, to implement its E/Point facility charging software.

Carestream secures DR order for Illinois hospital

Rochester-based Carestream Health, formerly Kodak, a provider of dentaland medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, announcedIllinois Valley Community Hospital of Peru, Ill., placed an order fortwo of its digital radiography systems: a Kodak DirectView DR 3000 anda Kodak DirectView DR 7500 System.

Editor's Note: Driving Workflow

Within media, there is a key concept called information design. This combines the art and science of preparing information so it is effectively and efficiently used by human beings.

2007 PACS Administrator Salary Survey

This year’s PACS Administrator Salary Survey garnered feedback from 720 respondents.

Contracts for Digi-Data, Elekta, NovaRad

Digi-Data Corporation announced its storage solution for the SoutheastAlabama Medical Center, the scalable T-2000 controller installed by LHComputer Services.

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.