Practice Management

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

Xograph nets mobile C-Arm order for British hospital

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.

NeuroLogica completes first Canadian install

NeuroLogica has outfitted the Montreal Neurological Institute andHospital at McGill University in Montreal with its CereTomportable CT scanner.

Two Texas universities team for $3.1M medical imaging project

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.

Massachusetts multi-specialty group selects CoActiv Exam-PACS

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.

NovaRad nets new RIS/PACS contracts

Hospitals in Mississippi and Wyoming have selected NovaRad's NovaRIS and NovaPACS software for installation at their facilities.

Missouri medical center installs 400+ Proximity workstations

Centerpoint Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America facilityin Independence, Mo., has completed the installation of more than 400IT equipment WorkStations from Proximity Systems.

NASA blasts Physio-Control AED into outer space

Physio-Control’s Lifepak 1000 defibrillator has been deployed on theInternational Space Station (ISS) as the first automated externaldefibrillator (AED) in space.

West Virginia hospital deploys Medsphere EHR system

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.

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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