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.

DeJarnette scores first European install

DeJarnette Research Systems completed the first install of its dyseCTworkflow engine at the St. Bartholomew and the London NHS Trust at theRoyal London Hospital in Europe.

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.

eHealth scores three imaging contracts

eHealth Global Technologies has signed contracts with three medicalcenters to provide its eHealthConnect service to departments within thehealthcare systems.

Baptist Memorial Health Care to use Barco?s diagnostic displays

Barco will provide Baptist Memorial Health Care with diagnostic displaysystems for its affiliate hospitals in the southern United States.

IDC wins digital x-ray install in Florida

Orthopaedic Clinic of Daytona Beach in Florida has awarded ImagingDynamics Company (IDC) a contract for four of its X-Series digitalradiography systems.

CMS selects CGI Federal for $27M Medicare enrollment system

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has chosen CGIFederal, a wholly owned operating subsidiary of CGI Group, to implementCMS’ provider enrollment chain and ownership system.

Mount Sinai chooses Symantec for data protection, HIPAA compliancy

The Mount Sinai Medical Center has selected Vontu Data Loss Prevention 8 from Symantec to protect electronic personal healthcare information (EPHI) and other confidential data, as well as enable HIPAA compliance.

Brooklyn RHIO selects Initiate for patients? records

The Brooklyn Health Information Exchange, a not-for-profit regional health information organization (RHIO), has selected Initiate PatientT software from Initiate Systems for locating, linking and matching of patient records.

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.