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.

Toshiba tops 100 installs with 64-slice CT system

Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. has announced a milestone with more than 100 installations of its Aquilion 64-detector CT systems in healthcare institutions and imaging centers worldwide.

GE installs its 500th PET/CT, announces enhancements to systems at ASCO

GE Healthcare announced at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting May 13 - 17 in Orlando that the company has delivered its 500th Discovery PET/CT scanner.

The well-traveled VCT

There have been a number of recently reported installations of GE's LightSpeed VCT (volume computed tomography) scanner, including one recently in Alabama and one in Michigan.

Siemens installs 1st 40-slice CT scanner

Siemens has announced the first installation of its SOMATOM Sensation 40 computed tomography (CT) scanner within the radiology department of Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) located in Burlington, N.C.

Eclipsys clinical manager installed at Canadian hospital

Eclipsys Corporation has announced that Calgary Health Region's Rockyview General Hospital, Alberta, Canada, has activated its Sunrise Clinical Manager 3.5 XA advanced clinical software system.

Anti-spyware targets patient privacy

Computer Associates International Inc. this week announced that Seattle's Northwest Hospital & Medical Center has selected its eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware for protection against spyware and related threats.

Eclipsys clinical manager activated at the University of Texas

Eclipsys Corporation has announced that the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center (HCPC) Houston has recently activated the Sunrise Clinical Manager 3.5 XA which will be used by more than 200 clinicians at the comprehensive psychiatric cent

UT Southwestern picks Hyland Software for EMR

Hyland Software Inc. has been selected by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, a national academic medical center and research institute, to provide enterprise content management (ECM) through its OnBase software suite.

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.