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.

Agfa nets orders at North London medical center

Chase Lodge medical center in Mill Hill, North London, has installed an Agfa Healthcare CR30-X.

Texas health system deploys e-doc bedside cart from CDW

United Regional Health Care System of Wichita Falls, Texas, haslaunched the first phase of its electronic care documentationinitiative with a customized cart solution configured and deployed byCDW Healthcare.

Pennsylvania health system chooses McKesson Horizon clinical solution

Saint Vincent Health System in Erie, Pa., has chosen to upgrade andextend its current clinical systems with McKesson’s Horizon ClinicalsCare Team Release.

Swissray to supply DR systems to Florida health system

Swissray International has been awarded a three-year, dual-sourcecontract to supply its digital radiography (DR) systems to theAdventist Health System.

Washington hospital selects Elekta Axesse for whole-body cancer treatment

Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, Wash., has purchased ElektaAxesse, adding a new system designed for imaging the entire body to its stableof cancer treatment systems.

ACR breaks down CMS IPPS final rule for radiologists

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued somealleviation for self-referral reform advocates, and the AmericanCollege of Radiology (ACR) has provided an overview of key changes tothe Stark regulations that affect its members.

Yale hospital deploys Eclipsys clinical information solutions

Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., has activated Eclipsys’clinical information solutions, including Sunrise Acute Care andSunrise Pharmacy, which are integrated modules of Sunrise ClinicalManager.

Carestream debuts pay-as-you-go archiving in France

Thirty-seven medical facilities throughout France have selectedCarestream Health’s pay-as-you-go hosted information management system.

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.