Practice Management

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

McKesson wins radiology billing install

Arrowhead Radiology Medical Group has selected McKesson to manage its revenue cycle operations including billing, accounts receivable management, reporting and account management services.

NextGen to acquire revenue cycle management firm

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems and a provider of ambulatory healthcare information systems, has entered into an agreement to acquire Practice Management Partners (PMP), a healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) company.

Agfa nets large Orbis contract with French hospitals

Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a 95 million ($127.4 million U.S.) contract to install its Orbis clinical workflow and diagnostic technology at 37 hospitals in France.

Quantum scores DR install in N.Y.

Quantum Medical Imaging has completed an installation of its single-panel PQ Digital Radiographic System which included a Canon digital panel at Windsong Radiology Groups new imaging center located in Hamburg, N.Y.

Teleradiology dives into online auction pool

Houston radiologist Daniel Roubein, MD, has launched the Telerays network, a website where teleradiology interpretations will be auctioned off to the lowest bidder.

California medical center deploys Data Distributing DISCO

Saddleback Memorial Medical Center of Laguna Hills, Calif., has installed Digital Secure Copy (DISCO) from Data Distributing.

Illinois hospital automates medication process with McKesson IT solution

Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Ill., has installed a barcode-based, closed-loop system from McKesson to automate the 183-bed hospitals medication-use process.

First Coast Oncology offers AccuBoost breast cancer radiotherapy

First Coast Oncology will install AccuBoosts breast cancer radiotherapy system in its Mandarin office and anticipates that the first patient will be treated in early November.

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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