Practice Management

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

Cerner nets EMR install at Abu Dhabi hospital

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.

IntelliDOT wins N.C. install

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 launches U.K. MR collaboration, scientific support team

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.

Iowa hospital selects McKesson HIS, EHR

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.

Radiology group installs first PEM scanner in New York City

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.

Imaging center to expand Florida operations

Axcess Medical Imaging, headquartered in Sarasota, Fla., will open anew 55,000 square foot Axcess Medical Center in the next 18 months inNorthport, Fla.

New coding credential released for interventional radiologists

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.

Agfa nets orders at North London medical center

Chase Lodge medical center in Mill Hill, North London, has installed an Agfa Healthcare CR30-X.

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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