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.

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Imaging Transaction Trends: Out With Acquisitions, In With Strategic Partnerships

VMG

The pace of consolidation in the medical imaging industry, which could be accurately described as feverish from 2010 to 2013, has cooled.

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Lee Memorial lights the way for patient engagement in the Sunshine State

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

With more than one million patient contacts each year, Lee Memorial Health System considers patient engagement the order of the day every day. For Mike Smith, CIO of the six-hospital, 1,423-bed organization based in Fort Myers, Fla., this enterprise-wide emphasis means constantly working to ramp up IT-enabled interactions via—among other interfaces—an increasingly in-demand patient portal.

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Wanted, resolution: Closing the CDS communications gap

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

January 1, 2017, is likely to be a red-letter day for radiology. As of this date, physicians ordering advanced diagnostic imaging exams (CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and PET) for Medicare beneficiaries must, in compliance with the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, consult government-approved, evidence-based appropriate use criteria through a clinical decision support (CDS) system.

INFINITT Announces Partnering Agreement with Trident USA, parent company of Mobilex and the leading provider of Mobile Diagnostic Services in the US

INFINITT announced today that TridentUSA Health Services has entered into a 7-year Partner Plus Agreement that is based on an unlimited software licensing model for INFINITT PACS and Cardiology Suite, in addition to custom software development.

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Independent radiology practice, it’s 2015. Do you know how your hospital sees you?

IRP

The question in the headline is not open-ended and philosophical. It is multiple-choice and strategic, as any given hospital or multi-hospital system now inevitably perceives its contracted radiology practices as occupying ground in one of only three possible capacities.

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Affiliation is the answer to consolidation, now more than ever

IRP

We’re only halfway through the current calendar year, and already radiology practice in the U.S. has been jolted by not one but two major transactions.

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Be happier at work

Finding a happy place at work may seem like mismatch—or if you are lucky, the norm. In healthcare, we strive to keep patients happy. Happy providers make happy patients. But sometimes we need some help in boosting our own happiness.

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Gaining insight by doing nothing

The other day I saw this headline and stopped. “The Art and Science of Doing Nothing.”