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.

Philips scores California telehealth contract

Philips Medical Systems said that the California Association for HealthServices at Home (CAHSAH) has awarded it a group purchasingorganization (GPO) contract for telehealth products and services.

Varian places five new accelerators in Denmark

Radiation therapy device developer Varian Medical Systems reported thatit has been selected by two Danish cancer centers to provide its Clinacand Clinac iX linear accelerators.

Scottish digital retinopathy installation concluded

The National Health Service (NHS) Scotland has finalized the rollout ofa digital retinopathy screening service for diabetes utilizingweb-based technology from Siemens Medical Solutions.

Eclipsys completes West Penn Allegheny install

Healthcare information systems developer Eclipsys said that West PennAllegheny Health System in Pittsburgh has successfully activated thecompany’s Sunrise Clinical Manager at its 665-bed Allegheny GeneralHospital (AGH) and the 59-bed AGH Suburban Campus in Bellevue, Pa.

Dynamic Imaging continues Prime Healthcare deployment

Web-based diagnostic image and information management developer DynamicImaging said that Prime Healthcare Services has selected the Allendale,N.J.-based company’s IntegradWeb PACS for deployment in five hospitalsthat it currently owns and manages.

PatientKeeper bolsters customer roster

Healthcare information systems firm PatientKeeper reported that it has added a potpourri of customers in the first half of 2007.

Crescendo notches U.K. implementation

Digital dictation and speech recognition technology provider CrescendoSystems of Laval, Quebec, said that it has completed the first phase ofimplementation for its DigiScribe-XL digital dictation offered atRoundwood Surgery in Mansfield, United Kingdom.

Halifax Biomedical, Scriptnetics ink software development deal

Medical industry software developer Scriptnetics reported that it hassecured a software development contract with Halifax Biomedical toproduce a clinical trial quality control application.

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.