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.

Cracking Down: CT Radiation Dose Control

Medical imaging procedures offer unprecedented abilities for physiciansto detect, diagnose and treat a wide range of diseases and medicalproblems.

Agfa to help drive e-Health program in Canada

Agfa HealthCare, a provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow anddiagnostic imaging solutions, has been selected as the vendor of choiceby the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, to deliver a DiagnosticImaging Repository.

TomoTherapy wins veterinary medicine school Hi-Art install

TomoTherapy plans to install its Hi-Art advanced radiation therapy system at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine

Philips to furnish California hospital?s women's imaging center

St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., is remarketing its breast centeras a Women's Imaging Center, which will feature an iU22 ultrasoundsystem made by Royal Philips Electronics.

Norwegian hospital deploys Philips SpeechMagic hospital-wide

Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, will roll out Philips Speech Recognition Systems SpeechMagic to more than 1,000 physicians across all medical specialties within the hospital.

IntraOp nets first Latin American Mobetron install

The Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, in Bogota, Colombia, hasordered a Mobetron from IntraOp Medical, which marks the firstinstallation of the mobile intraoperative electron-beam radiationtherapy device in Latin America, as well as the first OR-readyradiation device in South America.

Viztek scores Southern Nigerian PACS install

Viztek has installed two of its web-based Opal-RAD PACS in corporate health clinics in Southern Nigeria.

Cardiomedix partners with CDP Medical for PACS distribution

Cardiomedix, a provider and developer of ambulatory cardiac services and telemedicine technologies, has signed an agreement with CDP Medical to distribute its PACS solutions in the United States.

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.