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.

Cancer society selects Riverbed Technology for IT consolidation

Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division, has deployed RiverbedTechnology's Steelhead WDS appliances to consolidate its IT resourcesfor data protection.

HealthTrust renews contrast media contract with Bayer HealthCare

HealthTrust Purchasing Group has renewed its three-year contract with Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals to make the MR contrast agent, Magnevist Injection, available to members of the HealthTrust network.

EMC helps University of Miami transition to EHR

University of Miami Clinical Enterprise Technologies is usingthe EMC Documentum ApplicationXtender software suite to transition theUniversity of Miami Medical Group to an EHR system.

Amsterdam hospital chooses Philips remote system for cardiac monitoring

St. Lucas Andreas Hospital of Amsterdam, Netherlands, has selectedPhilips Medical Systems’ Motiva system to monitor more than 100 chronicheart failure patients at home.

Connecticut hospital selects Quantum Medical Imaging

Quantum Medical Imaging reported that it has completed its secondequipment installation of a Q-Rad-Digital Floor Mounted System, whichincluded Canon’s 40EG/50G digital panels, at New Britain GeneralHospital.

Foresight Imaging services Panama

Foresight Imaging has recently installed 35 of its TIMS DICOM Systemsfor non-DICOM to DICOM conversion and PACS connectivity in Panama.

Eclipsys nets Mississippi install

North Mississippi Health Services of Tupelo, Miss., will deploy Eclipsys Sunrise Patient Financials for the healthcare systems patient billing.

SmartPill scores VA Boston Healthcare System install

VA Boston Healthcare System has installed the SmartPill GI MonitoringSystem, a wireless, ingestible medical device — about the size of alarge vitamin pill — that travels through the gastrointestinal tract(GI), collecting and transmitting data physicians.

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.