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.

Louisiana hospital extends IT outsourcing contract with Phoenix Health Systems

East Jefferson General Hospital of Metairie, La., has renewed afive-year contract for IT outsourcing with Phoenix Health Systems.

Massachusetts hospital goes digital with Quantum

Quantum Medical Imaging of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., has completed theinstallation of their dual-panel Digital System Upgrade at TobeyHospital’s existing Quantum Medical Q-Rad radiographic room, which thehospital purchased about a year ago.

Brigham and Womens selects Care Management

Care Management International, a medical management and clinicalservices smart sourcing provider, will administer the enrollment phaseof a Member Outreach clinical trial at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Hologic wins Premier contract

Premier Purchasing Partners has awarded Hologic of Bedford, Mass., newcontracts for mammography and bone densitometry products, andpoint-of-sale service agreements.

eRAD nets multiple contracts in October

eRAD, a provider of radiology workflow solutions, reported that duringOctober, it won 10 new contracts with various imagingcompanies for the eRAD PACS products, to improve the patient treatmentcycle.

Healthways builds IBM healthcare site for members

IBM and business partner Mainsoft Corporation reported that Healthwaysof Nashville, Tenn., will deploy IBM’s WebSphere Portal as part of amove to streamline patient records and deliver health solutions acrossincompatible software platforms.

Ohio health system chooses Aurora

The Toledo Hospital Breast Care Center in Ohio, in conjunction withToledo Radiological Associates, has installed Aurora ImagingTechnology’s 1.5 Tesla breast MRI system.

Thoroughbred auction house converts to digital radiography with Eklin

Keeneland, a thoroughbred auction facility, has added 20 reviewstations from Elkin Medical Systems for a total of 32 image reviewworkstations for its 2007 Yearling Sale.

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.