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.

California imaging center deploys Toshiba Vantage Titan MRI

Health Scan Imaging has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems Vantage Titan MR system at its location in Temecula, Calif.

Spotlight: Sanger Clinic relies on homegrown cardiology IT applications

In the last five years, Sanger Clinic in Charlotte, N.C., has matured in the cardiovascular services arena, excelling in nuclear cardiology, echo, vascular medicine, electrophysiology and pacemaker services. In order to save money, improve patient data workflow and connect physicians in remote locations, the clinic has relied on in-house docs, allied health and IT personnel to design and develop IT applications.

GWU Hospital installs Orthocrat's TraumaCad

George Washington University (GWU) Hospital has purchased TraumaCad, aweb-based pre-operative planning and digital templating softwaresolution from Orthocrat.

Eclipsys completes $45M acquisition of MediNotes

  Eclipsys has completed its acquisition of MediNotes, a provider of physician practice information solutions, making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

U.K. hospital adopts Siemens CT Somatom

The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) at the Freeman Hospital inNewcastle Upon Tyne, England, has recently installed a SomatomSensation Open 40-slice CT simulator from Siemens Healthcare. 

Visage partners with ACR for interactive radiology education

Visage Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems,has partnered with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to provideits Visage CS thin-client server, which will be used for interactiveradiology education on coronary CT angiography and the Dartmouth PET/CTcourse.

Florida trauma center installs Toshiba Aquilion ONE CT

Shands at the University of Florida medical center, a level onetrauma center in Florida, has installed Toshiba America MedicalSystems Aquilion ONE dynamic-volume CT system.

California hospital chooses NeoTool interface engine

El Centro Regional Medical Center, a community hospital in El Centro,Calif., has selected NeoTool’s interface engine, NeoIntegrate, toprovide healthcare interoperability.

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.