Practice Management

Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.

Warning: Sidelined reactor could trigger medical isotope shortage
The impending shortage pertains to molybdenum-99, or Mo-99. A structural issue has occurred with a pipe within the high-flux reactor in Petten, Netherlands, which will require an immediate repair.
Malpractice watchers: Radiologists, imaging societies should bone up on the ‘science of visual perception’
In a more perfect world, legal cases against radiologists would solely focus on whether or not the defendant’s misdiagnosis reflected a true failure to uphold the standard of care.
ACR shares guidance for radiology providers facing IV supply shortages after hurricane
Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site was significantly impacted by unprecedented rain and storm surge from Hurricane Helene hitting western North Carolina.
Incidental finding characteristics that warrant communication
Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.
AI implementation improves when radiology staff concerns are considered
Although the potential benefits of artificial intelligence are numerous, its implementation is not without headaches for healthcare staffers.

Varian places RapidArc in New York

Varian Medical Systems has installed its RapidArc radiotherapy technology at Cancer Care of Western New York, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm reported.

November 10, 2008

Motion Computing, Allscripts deploys at Springfield Clinic

Motion Computing, a mobile computing and wireless communications developer, announced that Springfield Clinic, a large multi-specialty physician clinic in Springfield, Illinois, successfully implemented its C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) and LE1700 Tablet PCs with Allscripts Enterprise electronic health record (EHR).

November 10, 2008

Capsule notches new clients

Medical device connectivity provider Capsule reported that it has added more than 10 healthcare organizations to its DataCaptor roster.

November 10, 2008

Isabel online at Wisconsin Health System

Isabel Healthcare announced that Luther Midelfort-Mayo Health System has implemented the firms Isabel System, a computer program that helps physicians make diagnoses by tapping a medical knowledge database to match symptoms with diseases.

November 10, 2008

Nuance PowerScribe gets installed in 10 Tennessee facilities

Nuance Communications PowerScribe for Radiology has been rolled out at 10 of the 15 hospital facilities that form the Baptist Memorial Health Care (BMHC) network.

November 7, 2008

U.K. hospital rolls out Siemens interventional imaging system

Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, in Somerset, England, has installed a floor-mounted Axiom Artis zee interventional cardiac imaging system from Siemens Healthcare for coronary angiography, angioplasty and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT).

November 7, 2008

California cancer center now using Varian RapidArc radiotherapy

Doctors at Cancer Care Associates in Fresno, Calif., have commenced treating cancer patients using RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems to deliver radiotherapy treatments.

November 7, 2008

Capital Healthcare, CDP Medical integrate CVIS, PACS

Capital Healthcare Solutions and CDP Medical have integrated CardioDx, Capitals cardiovascular information system (CVIS) with CDP Medical Ensemble, CDPs diagnostic imaging and PACS.

November 7, 2008

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Cardiovascular Business

Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

Cardiovascular Business

FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.

Practice Management

Warning: Sidelined reactor could trigger medical isotope shortage

Malpractice watchers: Radiologists, imaging societies should bone up on the ‘science of visual perception’

ACR shares guidance for radiology providers facing IV supply shortages after hurricane

Incidental finding characteristics that warrant communication

AI implementation improves when radiology staff concerns are considered

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