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.

ProHEALTH selects GE Healthcare for EMR, other services

ProHEALTH Care Associates, a New York multi-specialty patient-careorganization, serving more than 750,000 patients annually, has selectedGE Healthcare’s Centricity electronic medical record solution tostreamline its practice and patient-care management functions.

eRAD scores six new PACS installs

eRAD, a provider of PACS and radiology workflow solutions, recorded six new PACS sales during the last two months of 2007.

Montana hospital chooses Perceptive Software

Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell, Mont., will deployPerceptive Software’s ImageNow for scanning 12-lead EKG tracings.

IBA Molecular signs with SpeakLike for real-time translation chat

IBA Molecular will use translation service SpeakLike with itsPETLinQ, a web-based application used to transport diagnostic imagesand reports from medical facilities to referring physicians.

IDC wins DR install in time for 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Beijing’s Capital Airport has awarded Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) acontract for its 1600 X-Series DR system for installation in thePhysical Examination Center at Terminal 3.

InSite One scores five cardiology contracts

InSite One, a storage archive and disaster recovery service providerfor the medical imaging market, has signed contracts with severalcardiology sites.

TopSpin nabs first commercial install for intravascular MRI

Topspin Medical in Lod, Israel, has installed its Cathamaran Intravascular MRI System at ZOL Hospital in Genk, Belgium.

Carestream to expand PACS in Germany

Carestream Health Deutschland has signed an agreement with Dr. HanckenClinics to expand its PACS solution to the practice based at theElbeklinikum Clinic in Buxtehude, Germany, and to install a long-termcentral archive for all four group locations in the country atCuxhaven, Stade, Buxtehude and Bremervörde.

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.