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: Kazeon, EnovateIT, Meditech

Kazeon, a provider of unstructured information management, saidthat Bartron Medical Imaging Inc., a provider of advanced medical imageanalysis, has chosen its Information Server IS1200-ECS to improvecustomer service to hospitals for quickly finding, managing, andsecuring patient information.

Contracts: DataCore, MCN Healthcare, Streamline Health

DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization and softwaremanagement, has partnered with Adtech Global Solutions and ViglenStorage Group.

Contracts: Canon, Compuware, GE, Medsphere, NovaRad, Sage, Varian

Canon USA said that Riverside Medical Clinic of Riverside, Calif., hasinstalled two Canon CXDI-40EG general DR systems and four CanonCXDI-50G portable DR systems.

Contracts: German Schwetzingen Hospital deploys Matrox technology

German Schwetzingen Hospital has deployed Matrox EXTIO Remote GraphicsUnit with its operating rooms (ORs) which are equipped with special ORPCs connected to the hospital’s network via wireless LAN.

Editor's Note: Nine Letters Big Change

It isn’t often that a magazine changes its tagline — and probably evenless often that a reader even notices. But now is the time. This monthwe’ve added nine letters — knowledge — that add up to big change forimaging and IT.

NHII technology surpasses United States privacy policy

Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are ahead of the U.S. insetting privacy policies that allow more patient control and the rightto restrict the flow of their health information, according to a new study.

Contracts: Agfa, Avaya, Fonar, Juniper Networks, Rogan-Delft, Streamline Health, TriZetto Group

Agfa HealthCare announced that the Managing Board of the UniversityClinic of Schleswig-Holstein awarded it a contract for cross-campusimplementation of its ORBIS Hospital Information System, with anintegrated RIS and IMPAX PACS.

Contracts: Eclipsys, Intelerad, Meditech

Eclipsys Corporation announced that SUNY Downstate Medical Center'sUniversity Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB) will implement Sunrise ClinicalManager and its fully-integrated modules, including Sunrise Acute Care,Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Pharmacy, and Knowledge-BasedMedication Administration(TM) as part of an organizational initiativeto improve care delivery through a clinical information system.

Around the web

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care. 

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.