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.

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Calgary Scientific partners with Edge Health

Calgary Scientific has expanded its partnership with Edge Health Solutions to include Web-access through its PureWeb platform.

Nuance equips London hospital with SpeechMagic

Nuance Communications reported that its speech recognition technology, SpeechMagic, has been deployed at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Denver provider installs Toshiba Aquilion CT system

Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems' Aquilion One dynamic volume CT system in its Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.

Sodium bicarbonate could reduce nephropathy risk

Sodium bicarbonate-based hydration was found to be superior to normal saline for reducing the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy in high-risk patients exposed to iodinated contrast, according to a meta-analysis published online May 13 in BMC Medicine.

Connecticut licenses radiology assistants

Connecticut has become the 26th state to recognize radiologist assistants among its licensed professions.

FEATURE: Multi-site initiative cuts CCTA dose by half

A multi-facility program using ECG gating and kV reduction allowed Michigan providers to halve coronary CT angiography (CCTA) radiation dose for thousands of patients with no effect on image quality, according to a study in the June 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Texas heart center taps Digisonics

Digisonics' DigiNet Pro, a Web-basedcardiovascular image management and reporting system, has been selected by State of the Heart Cardiology in Grapevine, Texas, for its echocardiology, stress echocardiology, nuclear and CT studies.

AEM: Crowded ED poses greater risks for MI patients

Patients with heart attacks and other forms of chest pain are three to five times more likely to experience serious complications after hospital admission when they are treated in a crowded emergency department (ED), according to a study in the Academic Emergency Medicine.

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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.