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.

Making Work Flow

When you increase volume, you have to change the way you work. I know all about that as a Mom of five boys ranging from 17 months to 12 years. Multislice CT, 64-slice in particular, is imaging’s hungry quintuplets.

Anatomy of the Digital Reading Room

Radiologists’ cries are getting louder—and being heard—as hospitals are beginning to attend to reading room design. This month Health Imaging & IT takes you inside some of the country’s best (and one of the worst) reading rooms.

2006 PACS Administrator Salary Survey

There’s lots of good news for PACS administrators these days. Their position is solid, essential to the radiology department — and now even enterprise-wide image access — and salaries are growing.

Orthopaedic Sports Specialists installs Sectra PACS

Orthopaedic Sports Specialists has installed Sectra PACS at their main facility in Glastonbury, Conn. Orthopaedic Sports Specialists is a prominent sports medicine clinic in the Northeast.

VisualSonics sees 200th install of micro-ultrasound system

Toronto, Ontario-based VisualSonics, a developer of high-resolution, ultrasound-based, in vivo micro-imaging systems, announced that it has sold its 200th VevoT platform. 

Around the web

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. 

CCTA is being utilized more and more for the diagnosis and management of suspected coronary artery disease. An international group of specialists shared their perspective on this ongoing trend.

The new technology shows early potential to make a significant impact on imaging workflows and patient care.