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.

FujiFilm inks three-year contract with Tennessee purchasing group

Brentwood, Tenn.-based HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP has inked a three-year contract with FujiFilm Medical Systems USA for its line of Fuji CR (FCR) products, effective April 2010 through March 2013.

JACR: Rad practices must focus on service, relationships to retain contracts

Less than 15 years ago, a radiology groups professional service agreement with a hospital was, according to Lawrence Muroff, MD, equivalent to a relatively hassle-free tenure. But Muroff, writing in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), says that things have changed. Radiology practices now have PSAs that are more restrictive, more controlling and more demanding. . .

Canadian DR company lands fifth Florida install

Digital radiography (DR) marketer and provider Imaging Dynamics has expanded its contract with Orthopaedic Clinic of Daytona Beach with the installation of its 1600 Plus X-Series with X3C technology DR system, the fifth system to be installed within the Clinic.

Scottsdale surgery center selects Wolters Kluwer Health

Health IT company Wolters Kluwer Health announced that the Surgery Center of Scottsdale in Arizona has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.

Annapolis Pediatrics selects Sage Intergy Suite

Annapolis Pediatrics in Annapolis, Md., has selected Sage North America to implement the Sage Intergy Suite of financial and clinical products across its four clinics.

Acist, HealthTrust ink three year deal

Contrast delivery developer Acist Medical Systems and HealthTrust, a healthcare group purchasing organization, have entered into a three-year contract for the company's cardiovascular injection technology.

Intelerad lands multi-site N.C. installs

Intelerad Medical Systems' InteleOne solution has been selected by the multi-site Carolina Regional Radiology in North Carolina to interconnect its facilities.

Midwest community health network chooses GE for health IT

InConcertCare, a health center-controlled network of eight community and migrant health centers that provides care to 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska, has selected GE Healthcare for its health IT system.

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.