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.

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club
There are fewer than 40 of these 7T MRI scanners in North America, and MU Health Care’s is one of less than 10 to achieve ACR accreditation.
Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging
The accused has fessed up to secretly recording a patient with his smartphone while she underwent medical imaging.
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions
Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.
Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers
The rapid rise of CCTA represents one of cardiology’s biggest ongoing trends, but most primary care providers are still not embracing a CT-first strategy.

MD Anderson to install Carestream RIS

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has purchased Carestream Healths RIS.

Varian inks $450M deal with Toshiba

Varian Medical Systems has signed a three-year supply contract with Toshiba Medical Systems worth approximately $450 million.

Imaging: The Collaborative Value Proposition

A just-published study in the Journal of American College of Radiology shows that Medicare now pays non-radiologists more for noninvasive diagnostic imaging than radiologists, with non-rads $4.81 billion in discretionary noninvasive diagnostic imaging earnings outpacing radiologists $4.65 billion in 2008.

UMass deploys Merge iConnect EHR image viewer

UMass Memorial Health Center in Worcester, Mass., has installed Merge Healthcare's iConnect Access, which enables medical image viewing from directly within a patient's EHR.

U.S. Air Force adopts Philips HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillators

Royal Philips Electronics received a $5.4 million order from the U.S. Air Force, through the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support for HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillators.

AR: CT may yield biased emphysema results

Socioeconomic status was associated with healthier lung function but returned higher degrees of emphysema among individuals with higher levels of income and education, leading investigators to point to bias in CT breath holds as confounding emphysema exam indicators, according to a study published in the February issue of Academic Radiology.

Two Siemens execs tapped for MITA leadership

The Medical Imaging Technology Alliance (MITA) has selected Siemens US CEO Randy Hill and director of marketing and strategic relationships for the Americas Henri Primo to assume leadership roles in developing standards for imaging equipment.

Novarad deploys PACS in Lone Star State

PACS developer Novarad has completed the installation of its flagship PACS at three Texas medical facilities, while also installing NovaRIS and NovaGM at one additional hospital.

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Radiology Business

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care.

Cardiovascular Business

Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.

Management

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club

Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers

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