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.

Richardson Electronics gets VA nod for imaging workstation

The healthcare division of Richardson Electronics has received approvalfrom the U.S. Veteran’s Administration (VA) Healthcare System for itsnew diagnostic imaging workstation platform.

Four Points Technology, InterSystems partner for VA contract

Four Points Technology will provide the InterSystems’ Cache database tothe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a contract that has an initialvalue of approximately $34.9 million.

Whittington pilots McKesson clinician portal

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust of London will pilot a new, singlesign-on gateway portal—the Horizon Physician Portal from McKesson.

Plantation MRI chooses RIS Concepts

Plantation MRI, a diagnostic imaging center in Plantation, Fla., hasselected RIS Concepts to supply its digital services to support thetracking and reporting of diagnostic exams.

NHS Scotland ready for national PACS roll out

This month, the Scottish Executive has begun a national PACS deploymentin Scotland, after successful pilots in hospitals across Glasgow,Dumfries and Galloway.

peerVue adds nine customers with launch of early adopter program

peerVue, a provider of niche healthcare software services, has begunits early adopter program with the addition of nine new customers.

Rappahannock Hospital goes live with Viztek PACS

Viztek, a software development company, has completed its Opal-RAD PACSinstall at Rappahannock General Hospital, a 76-bed rural acute carefacility in Kilmarnock, Va.

GE places SnapShot Pulse with California medical group

Cardiovascular Medical Group of Southern California hasimplemented GE Healthcare’s SnapShot Pulse for the LightSpeed VCT64-slice CT system.

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.