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 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hillman Cancer Center has installed Intego PET infusion system from Medrad, which has partnered with IBA Molecular to provide the radiopharmaceutical supply.
St. Francis Health System, a multi-site, multi-specialty hospital inTulsa, Okla., has signed a contract to upgrade from its existing PACSto the Merge Fusion PACS MX 3.0, a recently released version with thecapabilities of Merge Mammo 7.10.
El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., will deploy InnerWireless’Horizon in its new 300-bed hospital for wireless connectivity andcoverage for mission- and life-critical applications.
TKG Healthcare Technology Solutions has signed an agreement withCedars-Sinai Medical Center in New York City, to provide web-basedquality assurance for their patient access needs.
3M has introduced its 3M Codefinder computer-assisted edition, a newsoftware application that aids inpatient coding process with mappingtools that analyze and interpret text-based clinical documentation toidentify codes for review.
Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation (AMIC) has made its initialdelivery of short-lived radioisotopes to be used in PET from theKennewick, Wash.-based production center to Kadlec Medical Center ofRichland, Wash.
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.