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.

SPR: The state of Image Gently in the U.S.

BOSTON--While the Image Gently campaign had some positive impact on reducing radiation dose for children, there are still residual problems that persist in U.S. pediatric imaging--including who is performing the imaging--which were discussed during a panel on international perspectives of radiation protection for children at the SPR conference in Boston on Thursday.

Arizona provider re-ups PACS contract with Philips

Phoenix-based Valley Radiologists has renewed its iSite PACS contract with Philips Healthcare for the next five years for its image management and storage needs.

Southwest surgery center selects Wolters' coding, EHR software

Mesquite Surgery Center in Tuscon, Ariz., has selected Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding for gastroenterology, along with its ProVation EHR application.

Kansas taps HP for $119M medical management contract

The Kansas Health Policy Authority has entered a $119 million two-year technology services contract extension with HP Enterprise Services that includes two one-year options.

Washington clinic adopts Versus workflow software

Canyon Park Clinic, Pacific Medical Centers new multi-specialty clinic in Bothell, Wash., will host Clinic Workflow Automation from Versus Technology when it opens this month.

lifeIMAGE inks Connecticut hospital contract

Internet service provider for diagnostic imaging information sharing lifeIMAGE has entered into an agreement with Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., for its diagnostic image sharing technology at the hospital.

Norwegian group installs Sectra mammo system

Norwegian public health services partner and radiology services provider Curato in Oslo, Norway, has implemented Sectras digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography.

Accelarad adds three new clients to image cloud exchange

Medical image cloud computing company Accelarad has added three facilities to its new online medical exchange community, SeeMyRadiology.com.

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.