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 Blue Cross selects MEDecision

MEDecision, a provider of healthcare management software, services andclinical content, will deliver its Collaborative Care Managementsoftware to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana of Baton Rouge.

Carestream aids rural healthcare in China

Carestream Health has joined forces with China’s Ministry of Health andthe Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Peoples Government to establish adigital-information network for rural healthcare and to promote thedevelopment of the rural economy.

University of Maryland chooses InnerWireless

University of Maryland Medical Center’s radiation oncology departmentin Baltimore has deployed InnerWireless’ PanGo real-time locationsystem.

Australian imaging chain chooses PACS from Intelerad

Intelerad Medical Systems has signed a new agreement with I-MED Networkof Australia to expand IntelePACS across its chain of diagnosticimaging clinics.

NovaRad nets three more installs

NovaRad has secured NovaPACS contracts with three additional imaging centers in Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Utah.

Eastlake Radiology selects RIS Concepts

Eastlake Radiology has chosen RIS Concepts’ RIS to manage workflow intheir new multi-modality imaging facility in Hoffman, Texas.

Broadwest launches analog and digital motorized viewer

Broadwest, a mammography device company, has launched its new Rollux Danalog/digital motorized viewer, which provides an ergonomic system forinterpreting digital images with analog films.

Premier chooses DR Systems for RIS and PACS

DR Systems of San Diego has been awarded a contract with Premier for its RIS and PACS.

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.