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.

Varian wins RapidArc install in N.Y.

Clinicians from the image-guided radiation therapy program at CommunityCare Physicians in Latham N.Y., have commenced treating cancer patientsusing RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.

Xograph nets mobile C-Arm order for British hospital

Xograph Healthcare, a supplier of medical equipment in the UnitedKingdom and Ireland, has delivered a Ziehm Vision mobile C-Arm imageintensifier to the Hampshire Clinic in Basingstoke, England, which ispart of BMI Healthcare.

NeuroLogica completes first Canadian install

NeuroLogica has outfitted the Montreal Neurological Institute andHospital at McGill University in Montreal with its CereTomportable CT scanner.

Two Texas universities team for $3.1M medical imaging project

The University of Texas (UT) at Arlington and the UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas have partnered on a project that will provide five UT-Arlington engineering professors with UT-Southwestern laboratory space to further their medical imaging research.

Massachusetts multi-specialty group selects CoActiv Exam-PACS

Hampden County Physicians Associates, a 16-site, multi-specialtymedical practice with more than 50 physicians throughout Hampden Countyin Massachusetts, has selected CoActiv’s Exam-PACS.

NovaRad nets new RIS/PACS contracts

Hospitals in Mississippi and Wyoming have selected NovaRad's NovaRIS and NovaPACS software for installation at their facilities.

Missouri medical center installs 400+ Proximity workstations

Centerpoint Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America facilityin Independence, Mo., has completed the installation of more than 400IT equipment WorkStations from Proximity Systems.

NASA blasts Physio-Control AED into outer space

Physio-Control’s Lifepak 1000 defibrillator has been deployed on theInternational Space Station (ISS) as the first automated externaldefibrillator (AED) in space.

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.