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.

Cerner places Millennium at Jackson Memorial

Healthcare information system developer Cerner said that JacksonMemorial Hospital in Miami has implemented 11 of the Kansas City,Mo.-based firm’s Cerner Millennium products.

Pro soccer team to use Zonares ultrasound for injury diagnosis

FC Dallas, a charter member club of Major League Soccer, has begun toemploy Zonare Medical Systems’ z.one ultrasound system, which includesa Convertible Ultrasound platform, to help diagnose injuries frommuscle strains in lower extremities to tears in hamstrings.

Agfa completes U.K. PACS installation

Agfa HealthCare has completed a full PACS installation forimaging-based planning, interpretation and results distribution atUnited Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which began in 2006 as part ofthe National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

Allscripts inks Columbia University Medical Center deal

Allscripts, a Chicago-based developer of healthcare IT, said thatColumbia University Medical Center in New York City has selected thefirm as its EHR provider for Columbia's outpatient physician group andplanned community-based independent practice association.

EBM ready for PACS data center in China

Provider of medical imaging and healthcare IT services EBM Technologieshas completed the software design of its EBM PACS Data Center inShanghai, China, which will connect 23 hospitals.

Sectra signs Spanish mammo agreement

Sectra, a Linköping, Sweden-based developer of diagnostic image devicesand information systems, reported that the Hospital Oncológico in SanSebastián, Spain, has selected the vendor’s digital mammography systemfor deployment at its facility.

Chinese install notched by Imaging Diagnostic Systems

Imaging Diagnostic Systems of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reported that it has installed a CT laser mammography (CTLM) system at the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital in Tianjin, China.

Optio wins Natchez EHR contract

Healthcare information systems developer Optio Healthcare said thatNatchez Regional Medical Center (NRMC), a 179-bed hospital in Natchez,Miss., has selected Optio’s subscription-based EHR, forms automation,document management, and patient-signature capture products.

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.