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.

Rcadia nabs Montana install

St. James Healthcare in Butte, Mont., has installed a COR Analyzer fromRcadia Medical Imaging, a developer of patented computer-aideddetection (CAD) software.

Inland Imaging taps InterSystems for its expansion

InterSystems Corporation has announced its InterSystems Ensembleintegration platform is now being implemented by Inland Imaging in itsfacilities throughout Washington State, and its expansion into otherstates.

St. Joseph Hospital selects IntraOps Mobetron for cancer treatment

St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. has selected IntraOp’s Mobetrondevice to deliver intraoperative electron radiation therapy to cancerpatients.

Lifetime Health integrates Nuance speech recognition and EMR system

Lifetime Health Medical Group, a non-profit primary care deliverysystem based in Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., has integrated Nuance’sDragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 with its EMR system.

SciHealth wins DoD contract

The Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health System hasawarded a four-year, $1.3 million contract extension to SciHealth forits Insight clinical and business solution.

ELA Medical places Ovatio CRT

Sorin Group subsidiary ELA Medical, a cardiovascular device developer,reported that it has conducted the first U.S. installation of itsOvatio CRT, a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator.

Digisonics wins cardiovascular PACS contract

Digisonics, a provider of cardiovascular image management and reportingsystems, has been awarded a multi-modality, multi-site PACS contractwith Plaza Medical Group in Oklahoma City.

Toshiba nets Texas hospital install

Toshiba America Medical Systems recently completed its first U.S.installation of the Infinix CF-i/SP x-ray system at Arlington MemorialHospital, a 369-bed, acute-care full-service medical center inArlington, Texas.

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.