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.

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When the dust settles from all the recent activity and changes in the healthcare environment, it will soon become clear that there has been a major shift in the way healthcare is practiced, measured, and compensated.

Radiology of Associates Tallahassee Automates Teleradiology workflow with RamSoft PowerServer PACS

April 8, 2014 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1961 by Drs D.J. McCulloh and W.F. Lindsey, Radiology Associates of Tallahassee has been serving Tallahassee and surrounding areas for the past 50 years. They have 17 Board certified radiologists on staff with sub-specialties in all areas of diagnostic and interventional radiology for a combined total of over 250 years of experience in Tallahassee. They were seeking a solution to automate their teleradiology business and selected PowerServer PACS for its breadth of functionality and ability to expand to their future business needs. 

Major Hospital Purchases Carestream’s Vue PACS Upgrade, Vue Motion Image Viewer and Lesion Management Module

Latest PACS Platform Also Offers Ability to Integrate Mammography Into General Radiology Workflow     ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 10 — Major Hospital (Shelbyville, Ind.), purchased and installed an upgrade to the newest CARESTREAM Vue PACS to benefit from advanced features and options that include Carestream’s Vue Motion image viewer, lesion management application and a mammography module that will integrate mammography exams into the general radiology reading workflow. 

RamSoft Partners with LogicPlus to offer PowerServer Cloud in Asia-Pacific Region

RamSoft, a leader in RIS, PACS and Teleradiology software solutions, today announces their partnership with LogicPlus to offer cloud-based PowerServer RIS and PACS technology to key countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Raleigh Radiology Bridges Language Gap With Affordable Solution

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Language AccessNetwork (LAN) has partnered with Raleigh Radiology in providing a firstof its kind, affordable solution geared toward non-acute care medicalfacilities.

Shimadzu receives FDA clearance for three digital angiography systems

TORRANCE, CA – March 24, 2014 – Shimadzu Medical Systems USA has announced that a new digital angiography system family has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These are the ceiling-mounted Trinias, the floor-mounted Trinias, and the Biplane models.

Big data, healthcare and ethics—if I could just have more data…

If you think we are living in a world that runs on gasoline, or natural resources, you’re wrong. We run on information. Companies today collect all kinds of information, for B2B purposes, and more importantly, for consumer marketing purposes. Retailers know what we buy, what we like to eat, when we go out, and where are real-time, when we check in on facebook or foursquare. Now they want even more. In a Wall Street Journal Report on “Big Data”, experts took a look at what information companies don’t have, but would like to.  And healthcare providers weighed in on what they want—a real-time rundown on their patients’ vital statistics to get an early warning about potential health problems. 

Prescription-data firm nears IPO

According to a write up in the Wall Street Journal, IMS Health Holdings, Inc. is in the final stages of preparation before its initial public offering.