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.

Stentor awarded GSA government contract

Stentor Inc. has been awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) contract with the federal government enabling United States federal agencies, as well as state and local government agencies, to purchase Stentor's iSite PACS at pre-negotiated rates.

Philips 3T MRI scanner operational at Netherlands hospital

The Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC), in Leiden, the Netherlands, is using Philips Medical Systems' Achieva 3.0T MRI scanner for both R&D and clinical purposes for neurological, cardiac and orthopedic applications.

Planmed lands Chinese tender for mammography

Planmed Oy has been awarded a contract from the Chinese Ministry of Health and the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association for installation of more than 100 mammography systems in order to support an extensive breast cancer screening project in China.

Imaging Dynamics increases European presence

Imaging Dynamics Co. announced that its Xplorer DR installed base has expanded by three units following successful installations in Lichtenfels, Hannover, and Rosenheim, all German-based medical centers.

Eclipsys gains clinical IT installs

Eclipsys Corp. is implementing its Sunrise Clinical Manager with Critical Care and Sunrise ED Manager at Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Imaging Dynamics nets DR sale

Imaging Dynamics Company has sold its Xplorer 1500 upright digital radiography system to Gulf Diagnostic Center (GDC), in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Emageon inks with multi-site healthcare system

Emageon Inc. has been awarded a ten-year contact to provide enterprise healthcare information management to Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc., an integrated network of 12 hospitals, clinics and associated facilities located in Indiana and Illino

Siemens adds Soarian customer

Siemens Medical Solutions will implement its Soarian clinical and financial health information technology system at Lexington, Mass.-based Fresenius Medical Care North America, a dialysis and disease management company with 1,130 dialysis clinics and a nu

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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.