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: The Pulse of the Industry

When it comes to setting priorities, operations are topping the list inhospitals and imaging centers. The data are compelling in this month’sTop Trends survey cover story, which reflects the opinions of more than425 readers.

Business Continuity: High Availability for Clinical & Business Applications

EMC

A solid business continuity plan provides the healthcare organizationwith the redundancy and infrastructure necessary to recover data if aprimary system or data center is compromised or destroyed.

Top Trends in Health Imaging & IT

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

Some 434 imaging and IT decision-makers—representing a crosssection of professionals within large, medium, and small hospitals andimaging centers—offered their opinions on 23 trends that encompasstechnology buying and operations, and shared their goals and challenges.

Contracts: Commissure, CPU, EMC, NovaRad, Philips, Siemens, Zonare

Commissure recently commenced installation of its radiology speechreporting application RadWhere Suite at Beverly Hospital in Beverly,Mass.

Contracts: Siemens, Varian

Siemens Medical Solutions and University Hospitals (UH)of Cleveland, Ohio, announced that two facilities within UH haverecently gone live on Soarian Financials, Siemens revenue cyclemanagement solution.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses some of the biggest obstacles facing the specialty in the new year. 

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.