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.

Elekta wins first install for new Gamma Knife software

The Sutter Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Center will be the first to upgrade its Elekta Inc. Leksell Gamma Knife with the company's new Leksell Gamma Knife 1.2 software.

Perot awarded $390 million contract from Stanford hospitals

Perot Systems Corp. has inked a seven year, $390 million contract with Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) to manage system-wide information technology functions, including applications, project management, in

NovaRad scores latest Ortho install in Texas

Harris Methodist HEB Hospital of Bedford, Texas, has completed installation of TraumaCad orthopedic template and planning tool software on 11 workstations with an interface to its existing PACS.

DeJarnette lands 5th PACS data migration partner

DeJarnette Research Systems Inc. has signed two new PACS data migration contracts.

Varian wins cancer care contract in U.K.

Over the next 18 months, Varian Medical Systems Inc. will deploy nine new linear accelerators, including a unit with its new On-Board Imaging system for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), as part of the latest wave of radiotherapy equipment projects announ

GE expands alliance with Valley Baptist Health System

GE Healthcare and Valley Baptist Health System in Harlingen, Texas, have inked a three-year agreement to adapt GE's management and leadership systems

Siemens scores Soarian install

Siemens Medical Solutions will deploy its new generation healthcare information system Soarian at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, a 321-bed acute care facility in East Patchogue, N.Y.

Richardson sells Siemens' displays to Mayo

Richardson Electronics Ltd. has signed an agreement to provide Siemens Display Technologies' full line of color and monochrome displays to the Mayo Foundation.

Around the web

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. 

Richard Heller III, MD, RSNA board member and senior VP of policy at Radiology Partners, offers an overview of policies in Congress that are directly impacting imaging.