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: BioLucent, Varian

Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at the Tzu Chi BuddhistHospital cancer hospital in Taipei, Taiwan are using Varian MedicalSystems’ Trilogy accelerator, a medical linear accelerator, to carryout highly precise intra-cranial stereotactic radiosurgery treatments.

Contracts: Agfa, IntraOp, MEDITECH, TeraMedica

Agfa HealthCare inked a multimillion-dollar deal with Thomas MemorialHospital in South Charleston, W. Va., a 260-bed facility to provideAgfa HealthCare’s IMPAX 6.0 PACS and the newest version of AgfaHealthCare’s reporting solution, TalkStation 3.1.

Contracts for Acceletronics, InStar Systems, NOMOS

Acceletronics, an oncology equipment service provider and radiotherapyequipment distributor, installed four TheraView Electronic PortalImaging Devices (EPID) at Tacoma Valley Radiation Oncology Centers,Tacoma, Wash., and one at Ventura County Radiation Center, Ventura,Calif.

Contracts: Eastman Kodak, NearMed, Siemens, Viztek

Eastman Kodak has inked contracts with more than 30 healthcarefacilities in Australia, China, Central America, and South America forKODAK DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography Feature for CR 850/950/975 Systems.

Contracts: Kodak gets U.K. DR order

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom has installed a digital radiography system from Kodak Health Group.

Contracts: Optio, InnerWireless, GE, MEDITECH, Nuance, Varian

Optio Software will provide Plano, Texas-based Triad Hospitalsenterprisewide electronic forms technology throughout its 52 acute-carefacilities in 16 states.

Contracts: Aspyra, Eclipsys, MEDRAD

Aspyra interfaced its CyberLAB LIS (laboratory information system) andCyberRAD RIS (radiology information system) with the AllscriptsTouchWorks EHR at Olean Medical Group in Chicago.

Contracts: Agfa, CDW, Computer Sciences, NovaRad, Neurostar, Philips, Rogan-Delft, Suros, Swissray

Agfa HealthCare announced that the TalkStation radiology reportingsystem will be installed at more than 45 hospitals run by VeteransAffairs (VA).

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses some of the biggest obstacles facing the specialty in the new year. 

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.