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.

iCRco scores Midwestern State University CR install

Midwestern State University has awarded iCRco a multi-unit computed radiography (CR) contract.

DR Systems lands $3.8M in RIS/PACS contracts

DR Systems, makers of the Unity RIS/PACS, today announced nine newcontracts with healthcare facilities, totaling more than $3.8 million.

Philips wins $38M DR contract with Ascent Profit

Royal Philips Electronics and Ascent Profit, a leading Chinese medicalequipment wholesaler, today announced that they have signed a $38.5million (€25 million) contract to bring digital radiography (DR) systems tohospitals in China.

Adventist Health Systems taps Konica Minolta for CR

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging has signed a three-year CR agreementwith Adventist Health System/West for Konica Minolta’s Regius Xpressand Regius Nano CR systems.

Median Technologies scores Barcelona contract

Median Technologies has signed an agreement with Cetir Grup Mèdic, aradiology provider based in Barcelona, Spain, to install its LMS-Lungand LMS-Liver clinical applications.

Finish health agency chooses EMC for patient record archives

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland has selected an EMCinformation infrastructure solution to build a centralized nationalpatient record archives to keep the digital information protected,secure and continuously available.

Tennessee medical center chooses NovaRad for RIS, PACS

Northcrest Medical Center in Springville, Tenn., has chosen to replaceits existing PACS with NovaPACS from NovaRad. Northcrest is alsoinstalling NovaRIS to help with the management of its patient records.

British hospital trust chooses Agfa PACS, RIS, cardiology suite

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust has selected Agfa HealthCare to provide PACS, RIS and cardiology solutions.

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.