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.

Premier selects Fujifilm Medical Systems as DR supplier

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA of Stamford, Conn., will supply digitalradiography equipment for Premier Purchasing Partners, the grouppurchasing division of Premier, Charlotte, N.C.-based consulting firmfor hospitals and healthcare systems.

Minneapolis radiology practice chooses Intelerad

Intelerad Medical Systems, a PACS provider, has installed its IntelePACS at Consulting Radiologists of Minneapolis.

Italian hospital orders Elekta radiosurgery knife

Swedish medical-technology company Elekta will install its LeksellGamma Knife Perfexion at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy. Thesystem will be installed this month.

Hansen nets Texas hospital install

Hansen Medical Sensei has installed its Sensei robotic catheter systemand Artisan control catheter at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin,Texas. The install marks Hansen’s fifth U.S. install to date, with foursited Europe.

Rogan-Delft nets Finnish install

Rogan-Delft, a Dutch PACS company, has accomplished an installation project in Finland.

New York RHIO employs Axolotl for clinical exchange services

HealtheLink, a western New York clinical information exchange, hasselected Axolotl to deploy and maintain an infrastructure for theelectronic exchange of clinical information among healthcare providers,insurers and other medical professionals.

LA hospital taps Medsphere for EHR platform

Medsphere Systems, a provider of open source-based EHR systems andservices, has implemented its OpenVista EHR platform at Century CityDoctors Hospital in Los Angeles.

Baylor Health Care selects Nuance

The Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System has selected NuanceCommunications’ Dictaphone iChart hosted transcription services, aswell as the Dictaphone Enterprise Workstation, PowerScribe and EXSpeechfor dictation and speech recognition for clinical documentation.

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.