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.

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club
There are fewer than 40 of these 7T MRI scanners in North America, and MU Health Care’s is one of less than 10 to achieve ACR accreditation.
Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging
The accused has fessed up to secretly recording a patient with his smartphone while she underwent medical imaging.
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions
Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.
Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers
The rapid rise of CCTA represents one of cardiology’s biggest ongoing trends, but most primary care providers are still not embracing a CT-first strategy.

GE unveils new version of Centricity PACS-IW

GE Healthcare IT has introduced its Centricity PACS-IW version 3.7.1., a solution that derives from GE’s Dynamic Imaging.

California hospital selects Thomson Reuters service to ID high-risk patients

Mercy Merced Medical Center in Merced, Calif., part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, will use the Clinical Xpert CareFocus solution from Thomson Reuters to rapidly identify high-risk patients within the active hospital census.

NHS Trust hospital selects Siemens SPECT/CT system

Bristol Royal Infirmary, part of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, has recently installed a Symbia T16 TruePoint SPECT/CT, a hybrid system that combines a variable-angle, dual detector SPECT with a 16-slice CT, from Siemens Healthcare.

Varian scores Belgian install

Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium, will acquire RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems for modulated arc therapy treatments.

Missouri billing firm selects IMAGINE Software practice management suite

Medical Billing Associates (MBA) of Sedalia, Miss., an anesthesia and radiology practice management and consulting company, has selected IMAGINE Software’s IMAGINEradiology platform as part of its practice management suite.

Providers link HIE to lower costs, improved outcomes

Electronic health information exchange (HIE) between physicians,hospitals, payors and patients is decreasing the cost of care andimproving outcomes, according to a new survey released by thenon-profit eHealth Initiative.

Three hospitals go wireless with IBM services

IBM Enterprise Mobility Services have been deployed at three healthcarefacilities, delivering wireless communications and real-time access topatient records anywhere on the premises.

Hitachi nets Oasis MRI order

Metro Imaging, an outpatient imaging center in St. Louis, has installedHitachi Medical Systems America’s Oasis high-field MRI system.

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Radiology Business

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care.

Cardiovascular Business

Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.

Management

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club

Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers

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