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.

Aurora sets sights on strada in Italy

MRI breast imaging developer Aurora Imaging Technology said that it hasintroduced a mobile Aurora 1.5-Tesla MRI breast imaging system in Italy.

IsoRay adds Proxcelan sites

Therapeutic radiopharmaceutical developer IsoRay Medical reported thatthe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, andArizona Oncology Services (AOS) of Phoenix are two of the latestmedical facilities offering prostate cancer patients the company’sProxcelan brachytherapy seeds, a proprietary cesium-131 formulation.

Zotec inks Eastern Radiologists contract

Practice management, RIS, and billing information systems developerZotec Partners of Indianapolis reported that it has been selected byEastern Radiologists of North Carolina to provide the group with itsRIS and billing products.

Allscripts nets installation trifecta

Healthcare information technology developer Allscripts has signed threecontracts for its electronic health record (EHR) and practicemanagement products at facilities in the U.S.

Philips scores Belgian install for SpeechMagic

Philips Speech Processing said that its SpeechMagic speech recognitiontechnology has been implemented facility-wide at AZ Sint-Jan Hospitalin Brugge, Belgium.

Axolotl inks Bloomington HIE contract

Healthcare information technology firm Axolotl of Mountain View,Calif., announced that it has been selected by Bloomington Hospital andthe physician community in Southern Indiana to deploy its Elysiumsystem across the HealthBridge health information exchange (HIE)network.

Neurostar hits sales century mark for first half of 2007

PACS provider Neurostar Solutions reported that more than 100 siteshave selected the Atlanta-based firm’s Virtual Radiology Network (VRN)PACS for the management and archiving of medical images during thefirst six months of 2007.

Aurora places technology at Hattiesburg

Aurora Imaging Technology reported that its Aurora 1.5-Tesla dedicatedbreast MRI system has been installed and is in operation at the BreastCenter of Hattiesburg Clinic, located in Hattiesburg, Miss.

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.