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.

Vanderbilt using biostatistics software to fight readmissions

Vanderbilt University Hospital is testing a new computer program designed to estimate patients' risk of returning within 30 days.

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HIX review, new innovation efforts

Innovation and health insurance exchange were the top stories in health IT this week.

National HIX launch can learn from RI experience

The Oct. 1 launch of the new health insurance exchanges has been met with a range of technical glitches across the country. Angela Sherwin, program director of the Brown University executive master of healthcare leadership program and former employee involved in Rhode Island's insuranc exchange, spoke with Clinical Innovation + Technology about the situation.

Providers lag behind payers in big data and analytics

Healthcare organizations lag behind payers in adopting big data and analytics technology, according to research published by IDC Health Insights, a research firm based in Framingham, Mass.

MGMA finds practices cautious about HIX

Medical practices are cautious about the new health insurance exchanges, with 40 percent of physician practices reporting that they are weighing their options about participation.

$31.5M in NIH grants to spur public health innovation

A federal initiative to improve how scientific advances and discoveries are translated into commercially viable products that improve patient care and advance public health led to funding to speed innovations in public health.

TriZetto clearinghouses set for ICD-10 testing

TriZetto Provider Solutions, which encompasses Gateway EDI, ClaimLogic and NHXS, announced that clients can begin testing their 5010 professional claims for ICD-10 readiness beginning on October 15, 2013, nearly a year in advance of the ICD-10 implementation deadline.

Mostashari announces his next stop

Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, outgoing national coordinator for health IT, will join the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform as a visiting fellow.

Around the web

Styker, a global medtech company based out of Michigan, has kicked off 2025 with a bit of excitement. The company says Inari’s peripheral vascular portfolio is highly complementary to its own neurovascular portfolio.

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Mark Isenberg, executive vice president of Zotec Partners, discusses key developments that will reshape the specialty this year.