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.

Clinicians want AI to show its work
Providers are more likely to trust AI when they understand how it arrives at its conclusions.
Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade
The new appropriate use criteria define 17 specific clinical scenarios, guiding providers on situations when amyloid or tau imaging are and are not appropriate.
Female representation in interventional radiology still lagging behind other specialties
The number of female IR trainees has been on the rise for years, but this growth is slow in comparison to other medical professions.
ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms
Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, explains how the new Assess-AI National Radiology Data Registry is designed to help monitor accuracy and other metrics for radiology artificial intelligence.
FDA seeking nominations for mammography advisory committee
The National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee provides guidance and recommendations related to the standards by which facilities are regulated.

Genesis HealthCare selects Orion Health?s Rhapsody for HIS integration

Genesis HealthCare System of Southeastern Ohio has selected theRhapsody Integration Engine from Orion Health to serve as a platform tointegrate patient data from multiple hospital information systems (HIS).

January 22, 2008

Zonare ultrasound system takes a four-month cruise

Zonare Medical Systems’ z.one ultrasound system has recently set sailon the U.S.S. Amsterdam, a flag ship of Holland America Line, whichleft Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 4 for its 114-day trip, around theworld.

January 22, 2008

Elekta to supply French hospital with $7.24M IGRT systems

University Hospital Center de Poitiers in France has chosenElekta to deliver three Elekta Synergy digital linear acceleratorsystems for intensity modulated and image guided radiation therapy(IGRT) to improve radiation therapy treatment capacity.

January 21, 2008

Elekta scores two VMAT installs

Radiation therapy device and informatics developer Elekta reported thatit has placed two of its volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)systems in Europe and that the technology is in clinical use.

January 18, 2008

ACS wins $156M Tennessee contract

The Tennessee Bureau of TennCare intends to award Affiliated ComputerServices (ACS) a $156 million contract for the TennCare ManagementInformation System.

January 18, 2008

DoD contracts Osiris for radiation exposure therapy

Osiris Therapeutics has been awarded a $224.7 million contract,including purchase options, from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)to develop and stockpile Prochymal, an adult stem cell therapy for therepair of gastrointestinal injury resulting from radiation exposure.

January 18, 2008

Idaho selects Thomson Healthcare for Medicaid IT initiative

The state of Idaho has awarded a multi-year contract to ThomsonHealthcare to provide a healthcare decision support system and datawarehouse for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, aspart of the state's efforts to modernize its Medicaid ManagementInformation System.

January 18, 2008

CardioDynamics fills orders worth $2M for impedance cardiography technology

CardioDynamics, a provider of impedance cardiography technology, hasshipped more than $2 million of ICG Niccomo monitoring systems to twointernational hospitals.

January 17, 2008

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Radiology Business

The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business

New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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.

Cardiovascular Business

Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

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.

Management

Clinicians want AI to show its work

Experts update AUC for amyloid, tau PET imaging for first time in more than a decade

Female representation in interventional radiology still lagging behind other specialties

ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms

FDA seeking nominations for mammography advisory committee

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