Practice Management

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

Siemens Healthcare

Siemens Healthcare (Booth 922) is presenting new IT products and software versions at this years RSNA.

Imaging On Call to provide teleradiology services to Colorado hospital

Parker Adventist Hospital in Parker, Colo., has hired Imaging On Call (IOC) for teleradiology services.

AMA, ACC propose new ICD-10 timeline to HHS

The costs, training and impact of HIPAA's new electronic claim standard (5010) have been underestimated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and must be readdressed prior to the ICD-10-CM code set conversion, according to a letter from the American Medical Association (AMA), signed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), among others.

U.K. $19B EMR project plagued with setbacks

Progress on Connecting for Health, a 12 billion ($19.3 billion U.S.) program designed to give doctors instant access to patients' records across the country, has stalled, raising questions about whether the civil IT project in England will ever be finished.

New Mexico Software PACS gains 510(k) clearance

New Mexico Software, a services provider of business and medical products, has obtained a 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its XR-EXpress PACS.

Illinois hospital monitors patients with wireless GE Carescape

Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., has deployed GE Healthcares Carescape Enterprise Access, supporting its wireless vision to improve patient care and patient safety through expanded patient monitoring.

Kentucky medical center selects McKesson billing services

St. Elizabeth Medical Center has selected McKessons Revenue Management Solutions for outreach laboratories, which include billing, accounts receivable management, reporting and account management services.

Aurora wins MRI install at Loma Linda University Medical

Loma Linda University Medical Center in California has installed the Aurora 1.5Tesla dedicated breast MRI system from Aurora Imaging Technology.

Around the web

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.

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.

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. 

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