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.

Toshiba to take Elektas radiotherapy products to Japan

In an effort to boost its sales of cancer treatment devices in Japan, Elekta has signed a sales and marketing agreement with Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation in Japan.

Acuo and U Chicago team up on image retrieval

Acuo Technologies will collaborate with the Imaging Informatics team at the University of Chicago Medical Center to develop Acuo's DICOM Services Grid for enterprise routing.

Intelerad and M*Modal share voices

Intelerad Medical Systems has partnered with M*Modal to integrate the company's Speech Understanding program into Intelerad's Multi-Method Reporting system for radiology voice recognition.

Minnesota Childrens installs Toshiba, Maquet OR

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota has chosen Toshiba America Medical Systems' Infinix CC-i cardiac imaging system and the Maquet operating room (OR) table as the hospital's hybrid OR suite.

Las Vegas facilities add AccuNurse voice rec tech

Silver Ridge Healthcare Center and Silver Hills Healthcare Center, both based in Las Vegas and part of the Covenant Care health system, have deployed AccuNurse voice technology in their nursing and rehabilitation facilities to enable proactive care.

InSite One broadens Avreo-hosted services

Data storage company InSite One has inked an agreement with Avreo to host a number of Avreo's radiology workflow programs at healthcare facilities contracted with InSite One.

Matroxs Xenia to drive Carestream rad workstations

Carestream Health has chosen Matrox Graphics' Xenia Series display controller boards to drive a round of the company's PACS and mammography deployments. Carestream made the announcement at the 96th annual scientific meeting of the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago.

Definiens, aycan partner on lung cancer detection software

Definiens and aycan have integrated OsiriXPro and LungExpert to create a workstation that automatically quantifies lung tumor size.

Around the web

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

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.