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.

London center installs Siemens' cardiac imaging systems

The Clinical Imaging and Research Centre based at The WellingtonHospital in North London, a private hospital for cardiac care, hasinstalled a Somatom Definition Dual Source CT, Symbia T6 SPECT/CT andultrasound scanners from Siemens Healthcare.

Medipattern nabs multi-site install for B-CAD

Suffolk Medical Imaging and Mid Island Medical Imaging, private radiology practices serving the Long Island community in the greater metropolitan New York area have installed the B-CAD from Medipattern, a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) medical imaging for cancer.

Colorado health center selects eClinicalWorks for EMR, PM

Salud Family Health Centers, a federally qualified community health center in Colorado outside of Denver, has purchased licenses of eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management (PM) solution.

National Cancer Institute chooses Luna's agent for preclinical characterization

The National Cancer Institute has selected Luna Innovations’ MRIcontrast agent as a candidate for preclinical characterization by theNanotechnology Characterization Laboratory.

Southern German hospital group rolls out Agfa?s Orbis

Three acute care clinics from the Märkische Kliniken hospital group insouthern Germany have integrated their medical, nursing andadministrative IT processes following the installation of AgfaHealthCare’s Orbis in early 2008.

NovaRad wins three new PACS, RIS contracts

NovaRad of American Fork, Utah, has won new contracts with three imaging centers in the United States.

Virtua Health taps NEC for role-based communications development

NEC Unified Solutions has entered a large-scale unified communicationsdeployment with Virtua Health, a multi-hospital healthcare system basedin Marlton, N.J.

Children's Hospital Boston selects eClinicalWorks EMR/PM solution

Children's Hospital Boston, one of the top pediatric hospitals in theUnited States, has purchased licenses of eClinicalWorks unified EMR andpractice management (PM) software for its primary care network.

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.