Practice Management

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

ProCure selects IBA for third proton therapy center

Ion Beam Applications (IBA) will supply a proton therapy system at theProCure Treatment Centers’ Proton Therapy Center at William BeaumontHospital in Royal Oak, Mich.

California funds eClinicalWorks EHR system for affiliated physicians

El Camino Hospital of Mountain View, Calif., has selected eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management (PM) software for its affiliate, the Independent Physicians of El Camino Hospital (IPEC).

Philips, Healthworks to offer cardiovascular education programs

Healthworks and Royal Philips Electronics are collaborating to provideclinical specialists with new education programs and training resourcesfor several clinical subject areas, including peripheral angiography,interventional radiology, electrophysiology and invasive cardiology.

Spectrum Dynamics nets D-SPECT install at Arizona heart center

Scottsdale Heart Group in Arizona has installed Spectrum Dynamics D-SPECT, a cardiac nuclear imaging camera.

Calypso's intrafraction tracking, implantable transponders get new CPT codes

Hospitals and freestanding cancer centers now have two newreimbursement codes for coding Medicare claims associated with the useof the 4D localization system and implanted beacon transponders fromCalypso Medical Technologies.

Spectrum Dynamics nets D-SPECT install at Arizona heart center

Scottsdale Heart Group in Arizona has installed Spectrum Dynamics’ D-SPECT, a cardiac nuclear imaging camera.

Eclipsys makes acquisition move for MediNotes

Healthcare information system developer Eclipsys has entered into anagreement to acquire practice management software developer MediNotesof West Des Moine, Iowa, for a purchase price of approximately $45million.

AMICAS adds Phoenix client to customer roster

Diagnostic image and information system developer AMICAS reported that it will be providing its Vision Series RIS, Vision Series PACS, Vision Reach, and Vision Series Document solutions to Medical Diagnostic Imaging Group (MDIG) of Phoenix.

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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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