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.

ScImage develops integrated PACS/RIS platform

ScImage has released its PicomEnterprise PACS platform, which integrates many RIS functions into a single PACS model.

AdvaMed questions changes to FDA's premarket program

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) has released a comment in regard to the FDAs August report proposing changes to the medical device approval process, expressing concerns that timely access to safe and effective medical technologies for U.S. patients may be disrupted.

Aycan creates OsiriX iPad app

Aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH has released an iPad application of video tutorials for the medical imaging post-processing application OsiriX Pro.

Anthro releases ergonomic table

Anthro has released Carls Table, Model CT08, an ergonomic table for reading soft copy and teleradiology.

Merge updates EDC software

Health IT services developer Merge Healthcare has updated its web-based clinical trial analytics tool etrials Enterprise EDC (Electronic Data Capture).

CDC to modernize information management system

Science Applications International, a scientific, engineering and technology applications company, was awarded a contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide technical services to help the agency modernize its information management systems.

SCCIPA coordinates care with Health Access Solutions

The Santa Clara County Individual Practice Association (SCCIPA) has gone live with care management service company Health Access Solutions Access Express 5.0 to integrate care management with the clinical functionality of its Excelicare software.

N.H. hospital deploys Voalt

Nurses and other point-of-care workers at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H., will soon be using iPhones to interact using Voalts mobile communication system.

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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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