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.

Lutheran Hospital adopts TeraMedica information Manager

TeraMedica has inked an agreement through which Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., will purchase and install TeraMedica's Evercore clinical information manager with EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS).

Cardiology Associates to install GE's LightSpeed Volume CT

Cardiology Associates, a 25-physician cardiology group in Mobile, Ala., has announced the installation and operation of GE Healthcare's LightSpeed Volume CT (VCT) scanner.

Amicas eyes PACS replacement, new installs as part of market push

The first quarter 2005 closed with AMICAS announcing continued penetration of the ambulatory care market, the obtaining of several large MEDITECH accounts and community hospitals, as well as seen a rise of requests for replacement of legacy PACS (picture

McKesson sees 100th installation of surgical manager

McKesson Corp. announced the completion of the 100th installation of Horizon Surgical Manager, which features comprehensive surgical scheduling and documentation abilities designed to improve on-time case starts, improve operating room (OR) capacity and h

Misys wins $1.2M contract for laboratory technology

Misys Healthcare Systems will be implementing its Misys Laboratory information management system at the University of South Alabama (USA) Health System.

Quantum awarded Amerinet contract

Quantum Medical Imaging has announced that it has been awarded a contract with Amerinet for the Q-Rad radiographic and Q-Rad-Digital radiographic products.

New York Hospital to deploy Eclipsys' clinical manager

Eclipsys Corp. this week announced that New York Hospital Queens will deploy the Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager which includes critical care advanced software.

Bubbling to the Top

Healthcare IT is in the news again this month with the introduction of the 21st Century Health Information Act - the first bipartisan bill to address the major elements and try to spur adoption of electronic health records (and the "systemic obstacles and misaligned incentives that have hindered health information technology adoption," in the words of the official release).

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.