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.

Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?
New survey results delve deeper into what students are seeing in their future careers as physicians and how diagnostic imaging fits into the picture.
Orthopedic trauma reads a 'significant difficulty' for radiology residents
The findings are concerning, especially considering the amount of orthopedic cases residents are involved in during call shifts, researchers caution.
FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology
Diagnostic imaging leads the way in AI product approvals by a mile, accounting for more than 70% of all applications on the list.
Clinicians want AI to show its work
Providers are more likely to trust AI when they understand how it arrives at its conclusions.
Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade
The new appropriate use criteria define 17 specific clinical scenarios, guiding providers on situations when amyloid or tau imaging are and are not appropriate.

Agfa installs PACS, CR at U.K. hospital group

Agfa HealthCare has completed installation of its Impax PACS and CR systems at 10 Spire Healthcare Group hospitals in the United Kingdom.

October 16, 2009

Microsoft scores IT deal with New England health network

Caritas Christi Health Care, a community-based hospital network in New England, has agreed to use Microsoft applications for healthcare, including Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System and Microsoft HealthVault.

October 16, 2009

S.C. research net chooses Sun, Recombinant Data

Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC) has selected Recombinant Data and Sun Microsystems to collaborate on its HSSC Integrated Platform for Research, a statewide initiative for translational research and quality improvement.

October 14, 2009

Centegra to implement GE Centricity EMR

Centegra Health System of McHenry, Ill., has selected GE Healthcares Centricity Enterprise EMR, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative healthcare IT system.

October 14, 2009

UnitedHealthcare deploys telehealth net in Colorado

Centura Health, a Colorado healthcare network that encompasses 12 hospitals, and UnitedHealthcare have chosen three pilot locations for the Connected Care program in Colorado.

October 14, 2009

RamSoft gains Turkish PACS customer

The Istanbul Oncology Center in Turkey has selected RamSoft's PowerServer PACS.

October 14, 2009

ARRA grant allows Hamilton Community to adopt GEs EMR

GE Healthcare has landed an agreement to provide IT systems to a health network in Flint, Mich.

October 12, 2009

ACEP: Clinical decision rules can reduce spine injury imaging

The use of two clinical decision rules should help emergency department physicians reduce the number of patients who should be imaged due to possible cervical spine injuries, said Linda A. Regan, MD, in a presentation at the 2009 American College of Emegency Physicians' (ACEP) meeting last week in Boston.

October 12, 2009

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Radiology Business

The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business

New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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.

Cardiovascular Business

Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

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.

Management

Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?

Orthopedic trauma reads a 'significant difficulty' for radiology residents

FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology

Clinicians want AI to show its work

Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade

Around the web