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.

Computer Programs and Systems completes three PACS installations

Computer Programs and Systems Inc. (CPSI) has completed the installation of its ImageLink picture archiving and communications system (PACS) at three of its client hospitals.

NovaRad awarded two PACS installation contracts

It will be a busy January for NovaRad, as the company completes contracts from Radiology Associates of Macon (Ga.) and the Community Choice Healthcare Network in Washington.

Dynamic Imaging awarded PACS contract

Good Samaritan Hospital has selected Dynamic Imaging to install a Web-based PACS at its 431-bed, level two trauma center affiliated with Catholic Health System of Long Island, N.Y. Good Samaritan has the second-busiest emergency room on Long Island.

Baptist Health South Florida to install Philips Medical Systems' PACS

Philips Medical Systems this week signed a seven-year agreement to provide Baptist Health South Florida with radiology and cardiology picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) for the access of patient records across all Baptist Health facilitie

Philips installs its Panorama 0.6T system at two more U.S. sites

Philips Medical Systems recently completed additional U.S. installations of its Panorama open 0.6 Tesla MR scanner.

CHS selects Konica Minolta CR for supply pact

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging will supply computed radiography (CR) products to Carolinas HealthCare Systems (CHS) under a new three-year agreement.

Siemens and Agfa sign three-year supplier contract

Siemens Medical Solutions has chosen Agfa Healthcare as its preferred supplier for hardcopy and computed radiography (CR) imaging products.

Third German order for Sectra's MicroDose Mammography system

Praxisgemeinschaft in Kapuzinerkarree, a large private radiology institute in Aachen, Germany, has ordered Sectra's new digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography.

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.