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.

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club
There are fewer than 40 of these 7T MRI scanners in North America, and MU Health Care’s is one of less than 10 to achieve ACR accreditation.
Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging
The accused has fessed up to secretly recording a patient with his smartphone while she underwent medical imaging.
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions
Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.
Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers
The rapid rise of CCTA represents one of cardiology’s biggest ongoing trends, but most primary care providers are still not embracing a CT-first strategy.

Massachusetts medical center goes paperless with Biscom

Dec. 6 – North Shore Medical Center, a regional healthcare provider inMassachusetts, has implemented Biscom’s Faxcom Image Indexing solutionto transition their central scheduling process to a paperless workflow.

FAA purchases CompuMeds ECG machines

Dec. 6 – CompuMed has begun shipping its CardioGram enhancedelectrocardiogram (ECG) systems to Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Senior Aviation Medical Examiners (Sr. AME).

Colorado Hospital implements GE Centricity

Dec. 5 – The University of Colorado Hospital has gone live with GEHealthcare’s Centricity preoperative system to streamline surgicalservices across five business segments.

IBA inks Saudi Arabian contract

Dec. 5 – Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has sold a Cyclone 30 to the KingFaisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, in Riyadh, SaudiArabia, for the production of imaging radioisotopes.

Mississippi medical center chooses NovaRad

Dec. 5 – Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland, Miss., has signed a contract to install NovaRad’s NovaPACS.

New Jersey pediatric group selects Sages EHR

Dec. 5 – Somerset Pediatric Group, an 18-physician, five-siteorganization, has selected Intergy from Sage Software, for thepractice’s EHR system.

Ohio hospital chooses CareTech

Dec. 4—The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has signed a multi-year, IT infrastructure outsourcing contract with CareTechSolutions, a healthcare IT and health information management servicesprovider for hospitals and health systems.

California health network selects eClinicalWorks

Dec. 4—Redwood Community Health Coalition has purchased licensesof eClinicalWorks unified EMRs and practice management solution, alongwith Patient Portal and eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange for10 community health centers operating 18 sites of care.

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Radiology Business

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care.

Cardiovascular Business

Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.

Management

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club

Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Why cardiac CT adoption remains low among primary care providers

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