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.

Center for Tech and Aging awards $477K in mobile health grants

The Center for Technology and Aging (CTA), with funding from The SCAN Foundation, has awarded $477,150 in one-year grants to five organizations that will demonstrate implementation of mobile health technologies for older adults with chronic health conditions.

Coding gets exciting

Medical coding and billingvital to any healthcare organization, but never the most exciting departmentshave entered an era thats going to be anything but dull.

eHI survey: HIE landscape in transition

Although 2010 saw some consolidation among health information exchanges (HIEs), this has been a year of expansion for HIE in general, according to the 2011 eHealth Initiatives annual survey. The annual survey identified 255 active HIEs across the nation and its territories. Of those, 196 responded to the 2011 survey, said Genevieve Morris, eHealth Initiatives manager of research and programs for HIEs, during a web presentation last week.

Health Affairs: Public health spending influences outcomes

Increased public health investments can produce measurable improvements in health, especially in low-resource communities. However, without improvements in public health practices, more money by itself is unlikely to generate significant and sustainable health gains, according to a study published online July 21 in Health Affairs.

Article: For best QI results, look beyond meaningful use

Compliance with meaningful use measures wont maximize quality improvement (QI) or efficiency, according to an article in the July issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Report: Effective home health hinges on human factors

Although home-based healthcare can lower costs and boost patient satisfaction, it also brings care and caregivers into environments that werent designed to support healthcare, warned a recent report from the National Research Council entitled Healthcare Comes Home: The Human Factors.

Childrens Medical Center Dallas inks BI deal

Childrens Medical Center Dallas, a 559-bed private, nonprofit facility and one of the largest pediatric healthcare providers in the nation, has selected Health Care DataWorks Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance business intelligence tools to gain insight from its data.

AHIMA: ACOs may transform information managers role

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) can change the way health information is captured, maintained, used and shared. These care models also could drive evolution in the information tools required to manage that data, and in the role health information managers will play, according to a new white paper from the American Health Information Managers Association (AHIMA).

Around the web

The tirzepatide shortage that first began in 2022 has been resolved. Drug companies distributing compounded versions of the popular drug now have two to three more months to distribute their remaining supply.

The 24 members of the House Task Force on AI—12 reps from each party—have posted a 253-page report detailing their bipartisan vision for encouraging innovation while minimizing risks. 

Merck sent Hansoh Pharma, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, an upfront payment of $112 million to license a new investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist. There could be many more payments to come if certain milestones are met.