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, BrainLAB score three orders from Danish cancer hospital

Rigshospitalet, a cancer center in Copenhagen, Denmark, has ordered two Novalis Tx radiosurgery platforms with its suite of accessories and will upgrade an existing BrainLAB Novalis device to the new generation Novalis Tx.

IDC wins three DR installs in Florida

The Orthopaedic Institute has purchased three 1600 Plus X-Series DRsystems from Imaging Dynamics (IDC), for three of its facilities inOcala, Lake City and Alachua, Fla.

U.K. cardiothoracic hospital installs Siemens MR, CT

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a cardiothoracic hospital and aheart and lung transplant center in Cambridge, England, has installedMagnetom Avanto MR and Somatom Definition Dual Source CT from Siemensinto its new Diagnostic Center.

RadNet acquires Delaware neuroradiology imaging center for $4.5M

RadNet, a provider of diagnostic imaging services through a network ofoutpatient imaging centers, has acquired the NeuroSciences ImagingCenter in Newark, Del.

Missouri medical center selects BridgeHead for PACS archiving, backup

Western Missouri Medical Center has purchased BridgeHead Software’s BH PACStore and HT Backup for PACS archiving and backup.

Stereoscopic 3D mammography enhances lesion detection

TUCSON, Ariz.—Stereoscopic 3D full-field digital mammography can provide greater positive lesion detection and reduce false-negative lesion detection, according to results of three-year clinical trial conducted at the Emory University Breast Imaging Center in Atlanta, and presented at the International Workshop on Digital Mammography this week.

Hitachi scores $3M MRI deal with Pennsylvania hospital

St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., has invested more than $3million to purchase Hitachi Medical System’s Oasis high-field open MRIsystem.

Riverain to provide VA hospitals with chest x-ray CAD

Riverain Medical, a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) anddiagnostic technologies, has received a Veterans Affairs (VA) contractfor its OnGuard chest x-ray CAD technology.

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.