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.

Illinois hospital renews Emageon contract

Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., has renewed its agreement with Emageon of Birmingham, Ala., until 2013.

Dutch hospital adopts Barco diagnostic display

Barco has received an order for its Coronis Fusion 6MP DL, a 6-megapixel diagnostic display system, as part of a PACS installation project at the Beatrix Hospital in Gorinchem, the Netherlands.

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.

Agfa nets Premier film, medical imagers deal

Premier Purchasing Partners has awarded Agfa HealthCare a contract toprovide film and medical imagers to its 2,000 member hospitals and its53,000 alternate healthcare sites in the United States, effective Sept.1.

Caritas Christi selects Orthoview

The Caritas Christi Health Care network of acute care hospitals haschosen Orthoview’s orthopedic planning and templating software as anintegrated part of its PACS in all six of its Massachusetts hospitals.

IDC appoints new VP for Latin America

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has appointed Rodolfo Gutierrez as vice president and general manager for Latin America.

McKesson acquires EN-Chart to enhance emergency care segment

McKesson has acquired EN-Chart Scanning Program, a provider of computer-assisted facility coding and compliance solutions for emergency departments.

MediNotes upgrades MediNotes Clinician

MediNotes has released a new upgrade for its MediNotes Clinician, a .Net-based, EHR and practice 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.