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.
The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company has implemented an EMR from Cerner at Tawam Hospital in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to automate processes across the hospital.
Halifax Regional Medical Center, a 206-bed hospital in Roanoke Rapids,N.C., has implemented the Bedside Medication Administration fromIntelliDOT, a provider of wireless handheld, barcode point-of-caresolutions to hospitals.
Siemens Healthcare has created a new MR collaboration and scientificsupport team to support the development of collaboration partnershipswith researchers in the United Kingdom to further clinical andmethodological MR development.
Marengo Memorial Hospital will deploy McKesson’s Paragon communityhospital information system (HIS) as part of a plan to use technologyto improve patient care in its largely rural serviceregion.
Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology will be the first imaging facility inNew York City to offer positron emission mammography (PEM) to image anddiagnose early-stage breast cancers, utilizing the PEM Flex scannerfrom Naviscan.
Axcess Medical Imaging, headquartered in Sarasota, Fla., will open anew 55,000 square foot Axcess Medical Center in the next 18 months inNorthport, Fla.
The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) has released a newcredential, the Certified Interventional Radiology Cardiovascular Coder(CIRCC), to help navigate through coding change and decreasereimbursement and compliance errors.
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.