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.

BioImagene teams with Rutgers, UPenn for digital pathology

Digital pathology solutions provider BioImagene has collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., in the development of diagnostic tool, Companion Algorithms.

D.C. health system installs InSite One archive solution

MedStar Health, a nine-facility hospital system in Maryland and Washington, D.C., has selected its InDex Enterprise Archive from InSite One for enterprise-wide medical data storage.

RSNA: Radiology bears brunt of CPT code changes

The American College of Radiology held a session regarding the current process of reimbursement for new technologies and procedures through CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes and the development of these codes at the Radiological Society of North America annual conference in Chicago last week.

FDA recommends more quality checks in response to excess CT radiation exposure

The FDA yesterday issued interim recommendations in response to the ongoing investigation of cases of radiation overexposure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Survey: Top 2009 hospitals improve care through efficiency measures, practices

The Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which annually compares hospital performance on standards of safety, quality and efficiency, added 45 hospitals to the highest ranking of quality care this year.

InSite One may support 1 million imaging studies with DoD project

InSite One was awarded the Theatre Image Repository project from the Integrated Clinical Systems Program Management Office of the Department of Defense.

Telerad firm selects Accelarad's cloud-based imaging platform

San Diego-based International Teleradiology (ITC) has selected medical imaging cloud computing company Accelarads SeeMyRadiology.com cloud-based, software-as-a-service medical imaging platform for the reading, management and storage of its diagnostic images.

Acuo scores Midwest contract

Medical image management developer Acuo Technologies has signed a vendor neutral archive contract with nonprofit healthcare service group, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, which is based in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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.