Practice Management

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

Cincinnati ER to use Toshiba AquilionOne CT system

Greater Cincinnati area residents and patients of St. Elizabeth MedicalCenter will soon have access to the AquilionOne from Toshiba AmericaMedical Systems.

Alabama non-profit hospital deploys GE Centricity Enterprise

Huntsville Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital in Huntsville, Ala., hasimplemented version 6.1 of GE's Centricity EnterpriseSolution to integrate patients’ clinical information into one EHR.

Florida clinic chooses athenahealth practice management, billing service

Suncoast Medical Clinic, a multi-specialty medical group, will bereplacing its web-hosted practice management system with athenahealth’son-demand practice management and billing service, athenaCollector.

Merge provides off-site disaster recovery service

Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging solutions company, has launched its Managed Services initiative, which includes Merge Off-Site Disaster Recovery, providing HIPAA compliant backup of radiology images and information.

California hospital activates Eclipsys EMR

The Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, Calif., has activated integrated modules of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Clinical Manager system, an integrated EMR.

London hospital uses Hansen robotics to repair an aortic aneurysm

A team led by Nick Cheshire, MD, from St. Mary's Hospital, part of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, have utilized Hansen Medical’s Sensei robotic catheter system and Artisan control catheter to deploy stent grafts to treat an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a 78-year old patient.

Docs, payors say ICD-10 timetable is recipe for disaster

While the ICD-10 code set has the potential to transform the healthcaresystem, the three-year timeframe proposed by the Department of Healthand Human Services (HHS) is not long enough to make a successfultransition, according to physicians and health insurers.

Docs, payors say ICD-10 timetable is recipe for disaster

While the ICD-10 code set has the potential to transform the healthcare system, the three-year timeframe proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is not long enough to make a successful transition, according to physicians and health insurers.

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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