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.

HealthTrust Purchasing, Zoll ink deal for temperature management system

HealthTrust Purchasing has entered a purchasing agreement with medical device and software company Zoll Medical for its intravascular temperature management system.

Carestream nabs several DR installs

Health IT provider Carestream Health has seen a number of purchase orders for its DRX-1 System, a wireless, cassette-sized digital radiography (DR) detector that allows healthcare providers to upgrade existing analog x-ray rooms from CR or film to DR.

InnerWireless helps new FDA campus go wireless

More than 7,000 workers at the FDAs new White Oak campus have wireless connectivity to four carriersAT&T, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizonfor their government-issued and personal smartphones and BlackBerry devices using InnerWireless' distributed antenna system.

Atlanta facility deploys Toshiba's vascular x-ray system

The Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta has installed the Toshiba American Medical Systems' Infinix VF-i-vascular x-ray system to its 481-bed facility.

KLAS: Hosting healthcare apps creates benefits, requires compromise

Healthcare providers are finding greater success and satisfaction for application hosting working with software vendors but are able to host a wider selection of applications by partnering with services firms, according to a report from KLAS, a healthcare market research firm.

ECRI inks deal with U.S. Navy for medical equipment services

Nonprofit patient care advisory service ECRI Institute, has been awarded a new contract by the U.S. Navy,

Midwest MRI center selects Merge's RIS

Port Huron, Mich.-based Tri Hospital MRI Center has selected the Fusion RIS by Merge Healthcare for installation into its facility, which serves the St. Clair, Sanilac and Huron, Michigan counties.

Radiology: Multidetector CT scans reduce unnecessary appendectomies

Rising utilization rates of preoperative CT over the past 10 years, as well as advances in CT technology, corresponded to the decrease in the negative appendectomy rate for women 45 years of age and younger, based on the results of a recent retrospective study published in the February edition of Radiology.

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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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