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.

Medipattern nets Austrian hospital B-CAD install

Medipattern, a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) medicalimaging for cancer, has installed the B-CAD 2.2 at General Hospital inSalzburg, Austria.

Transolutions selects M*Modal for speech understanding technology

Transolutions and M*Modal have entered an agreement to offer integratedservices to Transolutions’ transcription clients, in an effort tostreamline the ability to share patient data by bringing structured andencoded data from dictation into EHRs.

Cerner Solutions nets San Diego ED install

Tri-City Medical Center in San Diego has implemented the CernerMillennium healthcare computing platform to improve patient care andincrease compliance in its emergency department (ED).

Creighton Area Health Services chooses NovaPACS

Creighton Area Health Services in Creighton, Neb., has installed the NovaPACS from the American Fork, Utah-based NovaRad.

Siemens installs HD-PET technology at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Siemens Healthcare has completed the first clinical installation of its high definition (HD)-PET technology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

EMC to build $31.5M patient archiving system in Finland

EMC will build a centralized patient record archiving system for theSocial Insurance Institution of Finland in a contract estimated to beworth $31.5 million.

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.