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.

Central Baptist Hospital acquires 2nd magnetic navigation system

The Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Ky., will deploy its second Axiom Artis dFC magnetic navigation system developed by Siemens Medical Solutions and Stereotaxis Inc.

Scottish hospital selects Sectra radiology IT-system

Swedish IT and medical company, Sectra AB, has signed a seven-year contract with Dr. Gray's Hospital Elgin, Scotland, for an integrated radiology IT system comprising the company's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and radiology informatio

Voxar colonography software selected for large UK clinical trial

Voxar's CT colonography software, Voxar Colonscreen, has been chosen by the Special Interest Group in Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (SIGGAR1) for a clinical trial sponsored by the National Health Service (NHS) Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

Outrage equals change

What has a 45 percent defective rate? Costs twice as much in the U.S. as the next industrialized nation? And causes an estimated 98,000 deaths per year (that's more than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer and AIDS combined)?

Who's who? 100 names you need to know

See which healthcare facility clinicians, administrators and thoughtleaders Health Imaging & IT readers think you should know.

Johns Hopkins' center for pediatric cardiology to install Siemens PACS

Siemens Medical Solutions and Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) in Baltimore, Md., have signed an agreement to install Siemens' KinetDx picture archiving and communications system (PACS) in its pediatric cardiology echocardiography department in The Johns Hopk

Siemens announces multiple installations of Soarian

Siemens Medical Solutions has deployed new clinical modules of Soarian, the company's next-generation healthcare information system, at three healthcare facilities: the Chester County Hospital of West Chester, Pa., the Carilion Health System of Roanoke, V

NovaRad announces two NovaPACS installs

Coulee Community Hospital in Grand Coulee, Wash. and Imaging Center P.C. in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands have deployed NovaRad Inc.'s NovaPACS.

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.