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.

Fujitsu completes three-year rollout

Fujitsu Computer Systems has deployed 2,500 tablet PCs to the Marshfield Clinic of Marshfield, Wis.

Italian oncology center chooses IntraOp for cancer treatment

The Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (CRO) in Aviano, Italy, hasselected Mobetron, a portable, self-shielding electron-beam linearaccelerator for intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOERT)developed by IntraOp Medical.

Northridge Hospital Medical selects Medhost

Medhost of Addison, Texas, has announced that Northridge HospitalMedical Center has implemented Medhost’s emergency departmentinformation system.

Nightingale inks 15-year contract

Nightingale Informatix, a healthcare application service provider (ASP)of electronic medical record (EMR) software, said that it has signed a15-year agreement with OntarioMD for its Nightingale on Demand,clinical management system (CMS).

GE Healthcare nets Havasu Regional Medical install

Havasu Regional Medical Center has installed the Infinia Hawkeye 4 SPECT/CT scanner from GE Healthcare.

Agfa deploys Orbis at Italian sites

Agfa HealthCare reported that it has successfully installed its Orbishospital information system (HIS) at its Italian reference site, theOspedale di Lecco hospital group.

Zonare positions z.one at Shore Memorial

Zonare Medical Systems has installed its z.one ultrasound system at Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox, Va.

Elekta places Leksell Gamma Knife at UPMC

Radiation therapy device and information system manufacturer Elekta hasinstalled its Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion at the University ofPittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) for Image-Guided Neurosurgery.

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.