Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
The impending shortage pertains to molybdenum-99, or Mo-99. A structural issue has occurred with a pipe within the high-flux reactor in Petten, Netherlands, which will require an immediate repair.
In a more perfect world, legal cases against radiologists would solely focus on whether or not the defendant’s misdiagnosis reflected a true failure to uphold the standard of care.
Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site was significantly impacted by unprecedented rain and storm surge from Hurricane Helene hitting western North Carolina.
Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.
Xograph Healthcare, a supplier of medical equipment in the UnitedKingdom and Ireland, has delivered a Ziehm Vision mobile C-Arm imageintensifier to the Hampshire Clinic in Basingstoke, England, which ispart of BMI Healthcare.
The University of Texas (UT) at Arlington and the UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas have partnered on a project that will provide five UT-Arlington engineering professors with UT-Southwestern laboratory space to further their medical imaging research.
Hampden County Physicians Associates, a 16-site, multi-specialtymedical practice with more than 50 physicians throughout Hampden Countyin Massachusetts, has selected CoActiv’s Exam-PACS.
Centerpoint Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America facilityin Independence, Mo., has completed the installation of more than 400IT equipment WorkStations from Proximity Systems.
Physio-Control’s Lifepak 1000 defibrillator has been deployed on theInternational Space Station (ISS) as the first automated externaldefibrillator (AED) in space.
Medsphere Systems, a provider of open-source healthcare IT solutions,has implemented its OpenVista EHR system at John Manchin Sr. HealthCare Center, a 41-bed, long-term care facility and outpatient clinic inFairmont, W.Va.
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.