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.

Contracts for Bycast, NovaRad, Varian

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is expanding its Bycast StorageGRIDdeployment to provide a regional cardiac image library.VancouverCoastal Health is responsible for the delivery of $2 billion incommunity, hospital and residential care services to over 1 millionpeople.

Contracts for Commissure, EBM

Commissure recently commenced installation of its radiology speechreporting application RadWhere Suite at Flushing Hospital MedicalCenter in Queens, N.Y.

Contracts for Eclipsys, Kodak, Perceptive Software, NeuroLogica, Siemens

Eastman Kodak has recently signed contracts for its KODAK CARESTREAMRadiology and KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions atassorted U.S. healthcare facilities.

Contracts: Allscripts, Eckert & Ziegler, Elekta, MedLink, RADinfo Systems

Allscripts announced that Amarillo Diagnostic Clinic P.A. has selectedits HealthMatics Office, an integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR)and Practice Management System (PM).

Contracts for: Axolotl, GE, InterSystems, Sage

Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (gRrhio), inNew York, has selected Axolotl's e2 technology and professionalservices to facilitate a federated, patient-centric health informationexchange.

MDCT Changes the Rules

When 64-slice multidetector CT scanners rolled out almost three yearsago, no one could comprehend the changes they’d bring to radiology.It’s kind of like trying to explain parenthood to someone who’s neverhad a child.

Contracts for GE Healthcare, McKesson, MEDITECH, Orthocrat, Philips

GE Healthcare announced the first Canadian install of its new PET/CTtechnology at Saint John Regional Hospital, in Saint John, NewBrunswick.

Contracts for Aurora, CentarisOne, Misys, Varian

UMass Memorial Health Care announced that it will install the 1.5TDedicated Breast MRI System from Aurora Imaging Technology at itscenter in Worcester, Mass.

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.