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.

Motion Computing, Allscripts deploys at Springfield Clinic

Motion Computing, a mobile computing and wireless communications developer, announced that Springfield Clinic, a large multi-specialty physician clinic in Springfield, Illinois, successfully implemented its C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) and LE1700 Tablet PCs with Allscripts Enterprise electronic health record (EHR).

Capsule notches new clients

Medical device connectivity provider Capsule reported that it has added more than 10 healthcare organizations to its DataCaptor roster.

Isabel online at Wisconsin Health System

Isabel Healthcare announced that Luther Midelfort-Mayo Health System has implemented the firms Isabel System, a computer program that helps physicians make diagnoses by tapping a medical knowledge database to match symptoms with diseases.

Nuance PowerScribe gets installed in 10 Tennessee facilities

Nuance Communications PowerScribe for Radiology has been rolled out at 10 of the 15 hospital facilities that form the Baptist Memorial Health Care (BMHC) network.

U.K. hospital rolls out Siemens interventional imaging system

Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, in Somerset, England, has installed a floor-mounted Axiom Artis zee interventional cardiac imaging system from Siemens Healthcare for coronary angiography, angioplasty and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT).

California cancer center now using Varian RapidArc radiotherapy

Doctors at Cancer Care Associates in Fresno, Calif., have commenced treating cancer patients using RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems to deliver radiotherapy treatments.

Capital Healthcare, CDP Medical integrate CVIS, PACS

Capital Healthcare Solutions and CDP Medical have integrated CardioDx, Capitals cardiovascular information system (CVIS) with CDP Medical Ensemble, CDPs diagnostic imaging and PACS.

NovaRad debuts new RIS/PACS version

NovaRad has released version 7.1 of its combined NovaRIS/NovaPACS, now available for hospitals, imaging centers and clinics.

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.