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.

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Image Workflow in the ED

PACS and the streamlined image workflow it offers is having a huge impact on the way multidisciplinary trauma teams handle their most critical patients.

Editor's Note: Healthcare Efficiency

Healthcare needs to be obsessed with efficiency. And we do too;efficiency is the lifeblood of healthcare in 2007. Our case study-basedstories each month detail the efficiencies gained by people andmachines.

Contracts: Agfa HealthCare, athenahealth, GE, IDC, McKesson, Orthocrat, Siemens, VirtuRad

Ohio Gastroenterology Group, one of the region’s largestgastroenterology medical groups has gone live on athenahealth’son-demand practice management service to improve the operationalworkflow and financial performance of their three locations throughoutColumbus.

Contracts for AMICAS, MCN Healthcare, Misys, NovaRad

AMICAS has signed a PACS contract with Advanced Radiology of Millville,N.J. a provider of outpatient imaging services, including generalradiography, open and closed MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, mammography,ultrasound, and fluoroscopic procedures.

Contracts for Agfa Healthcare, CareTech, Eclipsys, Elekta, EnovateIT, EqualLogic, McKesson, NovaRad

CareTech Solutions has completed the implementation of a campus-widewireless local area network (LAN) in southeast Michigan’s Garden CityHospital (GCH).

Contracts: DR Systems, Elekta, Foresight Imaging, Sony Electronics, TeraMedica, Varian

DR Systems announced 12 new contracts with healthcare facilities forits Unity RIS/PACS, totaling more than $7.4 million. The contractsignings came toward the end of 2006, and are from a variety ofinstitutions, from diagnostic imaging centers to large hospitals.

Contracts for NeuroLogica, Philips, Thomson Healthcare

NeuroLogica Corporation’s CereTom has been installed at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind.

Contracts for Agfa Healthcare, Medhost, Zonare

Agfa HealthCare announces that it has successfully installed ORBIS inits Italian pilot site, the Italian Malzoni Hospital (Clinica MedicaMalzoni) in Avellino, part of the Malzoni Hospital Group (GruppoMalzoni).

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Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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.

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

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.