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.

Neurognostics fMRI to be used in Huntingtons disease study

Neurognostics, a Milwaukee-based provider of integrated functional MRimaging (fMRI) services, has signed an agreement to install its fMRIsystem at The Cleveland Clinic and The University of Iowa for amulti-center Huntington's disease study.

Siemens supplies new London cardiovascular MR center

Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, has opened its new Centre forCardiovascular MR with two Magnetom Avanto MRI scanners and aninterventional cardiac catheterization laboratory from Siemens MedicalSolutions.

More Mississippi health systems upgrade after Hurricane Katrina

South Mississippi Urgent Care has contracted PracticeIT, whichspecializes in EMR and handheld diagnostic devices, to implement a newEMR system to help clinics serve the healthcare needs of its patients,especially during hurricane seasons.

West Penn Allegheny Health System choose Allscripts as EHR provider

West Penn Allegheny Health System has selected Allscripts of Chicago as its EHR provider for its primary care network.

British cardiac center chooses projectiondesign

Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, a heart treatment center housed atSouthampton University Hospital, chose a cineo3+ 1080 DLP projectorfrom Norwegian manufacturer projectiondesign to act as its imagesource.

Agfa and Adventist ink $35 million contract

Agfa HealthCare has signed a second, five-year agreement to provideEnterprise PACS technology for the Florida Division of Adventist HealthSystem in Orlando.

N.Y. hospital selects Allscripts

Westchester Medical Center has selected the Canopy care managementsystem from Allscripts, a provider of clinical software, connectivityand information services, to help manage and coordinate care for itspatients.

Mississippi updates post-Katrina healthcare with HSRA grant

Coastal Family Health Center of Biloxi, Miss., and the MississippiHealthSafeNet High Impact EHR Project have selected HealthPort for itsregional EMR system deployment.

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.