Practice Management

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

Cianna Medical wins first U.S. install of SAVI applicator

Radiation Medical Group has reported that it is the first U.S. center to use a new version of Cianna Medical’s SAVI applicator for radiation treatment of breast cancer, potentially expanding the number of women who will qualify for breast brachytherapy.

iCRco lands Vietnam CR sale

iCRco, along with Coastal Medical Technologies, have completed a multi-unit CR installation at Thu Duc district Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Elkin, ImproMed complete integration of veterinary PACS, DR systems

Eklin Medical Systems and ImproMed have integrated Eklins RapidStart DR system and RapidPACS web edition with ImproMeds Infinity practice management information system at mutual customers veterinary care practices.

Ouch! No more PV reimbursement cuts, please!

 If you think that there have been too many cuts in peripheral vascularreimbursement, grab a Band-Aid and get ready for more. There is someinformation regarding another potential problem that may affect yourbottom line.

Brigham & Womens adds Siemens SOMATOM Definition CT systems

Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH), the 777-bed teaching affiliate ofHarvard Medical School, has purchased an additional four CT systemsfrom Siemens Medical Solutions: two SOMATOM Definition AS 40-slice andtwo SOMATOM Definition AS+ 128-slice systems.

Coventry Health Care to use ProVentive for cardiovascular risk assessment

Coventry Health Care, a managed healthcare company, has selectedProVentive, an IT provider of quality improvement services for thehealthcare industry, for its pilot project in identifying and managingcardiovascular risk.

UNC to house 7T MR, cyclotron in new $260M imaging facility

A new facility with the latest radiographic equipment will help researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill to better understand the exact events inside the body that lead to disease, and track how new treatments work, due to a $260 million state-funded investment.

GE unveils new version of Centricity PACS-IW

GE Healthcare IT has introduced its Centricity PACS-IW version 3.7.1., a solution that derives from GE’s Dynamic Imaging.

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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