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.

Siemens installs mobile mammography system in U.S.

Siemens Medical Solutions has completed its first U.S. installation ofMammomat Novation DR, a mobile full-field digital mammography system,at Nevada Cancer Institute's new Hope Coach, a mobile digitalmammography van serving the Las Vegas area.

IDC wins Chilean government contract

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has been awarded a contract by Chile'sMinistry of Health to install 33 digital x-ray units throughout thecountry.

Sectra nets Danish order

Sjælland County in Denmark has expanded its mammography operations withthe installation of Sectra’s Sectra MicroDose Mammography.

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.

Cogon deploys HIE in South Florida

Cogon Systems has deployed the South Florida Health InformationInitiative (SFHII), a health information exchange (HIE) for SouthFlorida.

California hospital installs new ED system

West Anaheim Medical Center, an affiliate of Prime Healthcare Services, has installed Emergency Department Management (EDM), a patienttracking and integrated data system housed with the MediTech system.

Quality Associates wins $20M FDA contract

The FDA has awarded Quality Associates, a document management, imagingand archiving service provider, with a five-year, $20 million contractto digitize, index and consolidate approximately 20 million pages ofdocumentation and materials at more than 20 FDA facilities across theUnited States.

Nightingale, Healthcare South sign EMR agreement

Nightingale Informatix, a healthcare application service provider of electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software,has signed a $475,000 contract with Healthcare South, a group practiceof 45 healthcare providers at 11 private offices throughout the Bostonarea.

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.