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.

British hospital deploys Siemens digital fluoroscopy system

Pinehill Hospital, a private hospital in Hertfordshire, England, has installed Siemens Healthcares Axiom Luminos dRF digital fluoroscopy system for urinary tract exams and for arthrography imaging.

January 30, 2009

IDC nets China order for 300 DR systems

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has been awarded a contract to supply 300 units of its proprietary CCD-based digital radiography (DR) imaging technology to the China Charity Federation (CCF) over the next 12 to 18 months.

January 30, 2009

iSoft rolls out healthcare IT suite for German health system

IBA Health Group Limited reported that German hospital group, Krankenhaus in Buchholz and Winsen, Germany, has become an iSoft customer for Lorenzo, its service-oriented architecture platform for healthcare information management.

January 30, 2009

Canada signs DR deal with Carestream

Carestream Health has been granted a Health Canada medical device license for its DRX-1 system and will immediately begin taking orders for the digital radiography system in Canada.

January 29, 2009

West Va. state facilities deploy Medsphere e-medication system

Medsphere Systems has installed its Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) capability at all eight facilities in West Virginias network of acute, psychiatric and long-term care hospitals.

January 29, 2009

St. Louis healthcare system signs five-year deal with CareTech

CareTech Solutions, a healthcare IT services provider, has signed a five-year agreement to provide a suite of web products and services to facilities within the BJC HealthCare family of St. Louis.

January 28, 2009

McKesson wins revenue management contract

Baptist Healthcare System in Louisville, Ky., has contracted with McKesson for management of its physician revenue cycle.

January 27, 2009

German hospital goes digital with Carestream

St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leipzig, Germany, has commissioned a Kodak Directview DR 9500 system from Carestream Health.

January 26, 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

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