Practice Management

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

Minnesota hospital to deploy MEDHOST ED software

Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, Minn., has selected MEDHOST’ssoftware for its emergency department (ED), as part of itshospital-wide efforts to switch to electronic documentation.

Amicas scores California radiology group install

Arcadia Radiology Medical Group in Arcadia, Calif., will utilize VisionSeries RIS, Vision Reach, Vision Series Financials and InsightDashboards solutions from Amicas.

Carestream to provide digital medical imaging at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Healthcare professionals at the Olympic Village Polyclinic in Beijing,China, will use digital medical and dental imaging systems fromCarestream Health to diagnose injuries and treat health concerns ofathletes and officials during the Summer Olympic Games.

Two health systems choose TheraDoc CDS system

BayCare Health System in Clearwater, Fla., and PeaceHealth healthcaresystem in Bellevue, Wash., have selected electronic surveillance andclinical decision support (CDS) systems provided by TheraDoc.

InSite One scores multiple contracts in first half of 2008

InSite One has added 40 new clients during the first half of 2008.

Florida cancer center treats cancer patient with Varian radiotherapy system

Doctors at Melbourne Internal Medical Associates Cancer Centerin Florida, have begun to treat patients with cancer using RapidArcradiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.

Michigan cancer institute to deploy Eclipsys clinical, revenue cycle suite

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit has signed anagreement to deploy Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise integrated suite ofclinical and revenue cycle applications.

Varian, BrainLAB score three orders from Danish cancer hospital

Rigshospitalet, a cancer center in Copenhagen, Denmark, has ordered two Novalis Tx radiosurgery platforms with its suite of accessories and will upgrade an existing BrainLAB Novalis device to the new generation Novalis Tx.

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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