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.

Alabama hospital first in the U.S. to use Varian RapidArc radiotherapy

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health will now be the first in the United States to treat cancer patients with RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems.

Brussels women's health clinic adopts Sectra mammo solutions

Brussels Menopause Center, a private clinic for womens health, has chosen Sectra MicroDose Mammography to offer women mammography examinations at a low radiation dose.

Ohio hospital selects Allscripts EHR

St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio, has selected the Allscriptsintegrated EHR and practice management solution to automate and connectclinical and administrative processes for its 100 physicians.

Kansas hospital selects Digisonics applications for OB ultrasound

Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kan., has selected Digisonics to provideits clinical reporting and database platform for obstetric (OB)ultrasound.

Mississippi hospital chooses NovaRad PACS, RIS

Leake Memorial Hospital in Carthage, Miss., has selected NovaRad’s NovaRIS and NovaPACS technologies.

North Carolina radiology group selects InterSystems software

Greensboro Radiology has chosen InterSystems Ensemble software as its enterprise-wide integration platform.

Scantek nets two Brazilian mammo contracts

Scantek Medical’s wholly owned subsidiary, Scantek Medical do Brasil,will sell an aggregate of 70,000 units of its BreastCare/BreastAlertdifferential temperature sensor product to two companies in Brazil.

Indiana clinic completes eRAD PACS install

The Hammond Clinic in Munster, Ind., is now operational with an eRadPACS, from eRAD, a provider of web-enabled PACS and teleradiologyproducts.

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.