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.

McKesson nets Shriners Hospitals install

The Shriners Hospitals for Children system plans to implementMcKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging system across its 22-hospitalsystem, which handles 250,000 diagnostic procedures each year.

Denmark hospital selects Hyland Software

Odense University Hospital in Denmark, has implemented Hyland’s OnBase,a deployable suite of enterprise content management softwareapplications.

Elekta nets $4.3M order from Belgian university

The University of Liege Hospital (CHU Liege) has chosen Elekta tosupply advanced radiation therapy technology and information managementsoftware for its CHU Liege Radiation Therapy department.

Siemens to deploy first Somatom Definition AS

Erlangen University Hospital’s surgical trauma center will be the firstto install Siemens Medical Solutions’ Somatom Definition adaptivescanner (AS) CT system.

Aris Teleradiology to implement RamSofts PACS

Aris Teleradiology plans to implement RamSoft's PowerServer PACS technology by the end of the year.

N.C. radiology practice taps Neurostar

Mecklenburg Radiology Associates, a 31-radiologist group for a range ofspecialty practices in Charlotte, N.C., has chosen Neurostar’s virtualradiology network for the communication of images from offsitelocations.

Western healthcare system selects Allscripts

The Poudre Valley Health System has selected Allscripts as anEHR and practice management provider to automate and connect clinicaland administrative processes for its medical staff of independentphysicians.

NovaRad nets multiple installs

NovaRad has secured five new contracts for its NovaPACS product.

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.