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.

Sage to provide Texas physician group with EHR, PM systems

Gonzaba Medical Group, a multi-site medical physician practice, hasselected Sage Software Healthcare’s Intergy EHR and Intergy practicemanagement (PM) systems to provide its newest clinic with access topatient and clinical data without paper charts.

Texas hospital deploys NovaPACS for ER, healthcare services

Ward Memorial Hospital, a level IV trauma center in Monahans, Texas, isimplementing NovaRad’s NovaPACS imaging technology for its emergencyand healthcare services.

Xograph wins digital x-ray installs at London hospital

Barts and The London NHS Trust is installing six new mobile digitalx-ray systems (Mobile DaRt) and one new mobile image intensifer (ZiehmVision R) from Xograph Healthcare.

Merge nets Fusion PACS install

Merge Healthcare has installed the Fusion PACS MX 3.0 with integratedMerge Mammo 7.10 at Washington Radiology Associates (WRA).

InSight Health to provide MRI services to four L.A. medical centers

InSight Health Services has entered into along-term agreement with the county of Los Angeles to provide MRIservices at four county-owned academic medical centers.

Wisconsin radiology group selects RIS Concepts RAD-RIS

Capital Radiology in Sheridan, Wis., has selected RIS Concepts’ RAD-RISto improve exam management for its freestanding imaging center andteleradiology practice.

Sectra to install PACS at five public hospitals in Spain

Sectra has signed an agreement with SERGAS, a healthcare serviceprovider of the Galicia region in northwest Spain, to install PACS atfive of the region’s public hospitals.

Accuray wins CyberKnife contract with Montecito Medical

Montecito Medical Ventures, a joint venture of Montecito MedicalInvestment Company, has formed an alliance by purchasing two placementcontracts from Accuray, manufacturer of the CyberKnife radiosurgerysystem.

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.