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.

Toshiba nets Tennessee CT install

Diagnostic imaging modality developer Toshiba America Medical Systemsreported that East Tennessee Children's Hospital has installed two ofits Aquilion CT systems; one 16-slice and one 64-slice.

Capital Breast Care Center installs Mammopad

Mammography supplier BioLucent installed its Mammopad in the CapitalBreast Care Center (CBCC) of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centerat Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Quantum selected for Conn. hospital installation

Medical equipment manufacturer Quantum Medical Imaging has completedinstallation of its Q-Rad radiographic system, featuring a Canon’sMedical System’s dual-panel DR receptor system at New Britain GeneralHospital in New Britain, Conn.

Microsoft places Azyxxi with Novant

Microsoft reported that Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health willimplement the Redmond, Wash.-based firm’s Azyxxi unified healthenterprise platform throughout its healthcare network.

CoActiv updates Conn. hospital

Gaylord Hospital, a long-term acute care hospital in Wallingford,Conn., selected CoActiv Medical to supply its EXAM-PACS family ofproducts to support the acquisition, analysis, distribution andarchiving of medical images, according to the software and IT systemsprovider.

European hospitals place DR orders with Carestream

Carestream Health announced that it has recently signed contractswith several European healthcare facilities for a number of its KodakDirectview direct radiography (DR) systems.

Sectra signs NYC contract

Diagnostic imaging system developer Sectra said it has been selected asthe PACS product and service provider for the New York City Health andHospitals Corporation (HHC).

HealthAlliance goes wireless with Soarian

HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster, Mass., said that it is takingits Soarian hospital information system (HIS) from Siemens MedicalSolutions of Malvern, Pa., wireless via devices supported byInnerWireless Wireless Utility product.

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.