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.

Carestream adds Smith to board

Michael L. Smith, former executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) for Anthem, and its subsidiaries, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has joined the board of directors for Carestream Health.

Candelis

Candelis (Booth 1509) is demonstrating its iMed-Stor 300, a dedicated DICOM-compliant archive appliance engineered to provide secure management of digital medical images and studies for standalone imaging operations including private practices, hospital departments, imaging centers and multi-physician clinics using a single imaging modality.

GE sets focus on virtual environment

A little over a year ago, GE Healthcare acquired RIS/PACS developer Dynamic Imaging, declaring its intention to offer a suite of imaging informatics products for the outpatient diagnostic imaging center and community hospital market.

McKesson places Paragon at Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam Community Hospitals (BDCH) in Beaver Dam, Wis., has signed a contract to implement McKessons Paragon community healthcare information system to provide integrated clinical and financial information systems and EHRs for its new hospital and facilities.

Siemens scores FFDM order from U.K. hospital

Worcestershire Royal Hospital, part of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in the United Kingdom, has ordered a full-field direct digital mammography (FFDM) system from Siemens Healthcare.

Toshiba installs first Aquilion ONE in Alabama

Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems Aquilion ONE dynamic volume CT.

Zotec Partners signs Texas radiology group

Zotec Partners reported that it has signed a contract to perform billing and accounts receivable management services for Texarkana Radiology Associates, a division of the Advanced Imaging Center of Texarkana, Texas.

Varian places RapidArc in New York

Varian Medical Systems has installed its RapidArc radiotherapy technology at Cancer Care of Western New York, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm reported.

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.