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.

Rowan Regional Medical Center to install GEMSIT PACS and CR

GE Medical Systems Information Technologies (GEMSIT) signed an agreement with Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, N.C., to install GEMSIT'S Centricity PACS and CR system.

Agfa signs RIS/PACS deals with two major Dutch hospitals

Two Dutch healthcare facilities have awarded Agfa Healthcare a contract to install hospital-wide digital imaging systems worth an estimated $8 million.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses some of the biggest obstacles facing the specialty in the new year. 

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

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.