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.

McKesson aids Basset Healthcare in IT adoption

Bassett Healthcare of Cooperstown, N.Y., has selected McKesson to helpcreate a single EHR network in its four hospitals and 23 communityhealth centers.

TeraMedica nabs Johns Hopkins install

Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has installed TeraMedica’s Evercoreclinical information manager in its clinical and research therapyclinics, including connection to satellite facilities.

Indian hospital utilizes TomoTherapy treatment

Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai, India, has begun to treat cancer patients with the Hi-Art system from TomoTherapy.

N.Y. GI practice to employ SmartPill monitoring system

Gastroenterology Associates in Williamsville, N.Y., has installed theSmartPill GI monitoring system in its practice, offering thegastrointestinal (GI) technology to patients in western New York.

Elekta nabs two Italian installs

Two Italian hospitals, S. Maria Annunziata Hospital in Florence andIRST Cancer Institute in Meldola, have opened new radiation therapyclinics, and selected Elekta to supply its cancer treatment systems forintensity modulated radiation therapy and image-guided radiationtherapy.

Quantum equips Premier with radiography devices

Quantum Medical Imaging, a medical equipment manufacturer, has beenawarded a three-year contract with Premier, a group purchasingorganization.

Confirma adds its CADstream to prostate research sites

Confirma, an application-specific CAD for MRI provider, has installedits CADstream for prostate at research sites, including MRI at BethIsrael in Boston, Simonmed Imaging in Scottsdale, Ariz., Belfair inBelfair, Wash., and the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass.

Adapx orders digital pens from Anoto

The Seattle-based Adapx, a mobile data collection manufacturer, hasplaced an order of 5,000 units of digital pens from Anoto Group’s penmanufacturer partner, Maxwell.

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.