Practice Management

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

IDC wins three DR installs in Florida

The Orthopaedic Institute has purchased three 1600 Plus X-Series DRsystems from Imaging Dynamics (IDC), for three of its facilities inOcala, Lake City and Alachua, Fla.

U.K. cardiothoracic hospital installs Siemens MR, CT

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a cardiothoracic hospital and aheart and lung transplant center in Cambridge, England, has installedMagnetom Avanto MR and Somatom Definition Dual Source CT from Siemensinto its new Diagnostic Center.

RadNet acquires Delaware neuroradiology imaging center for $4.5M

RadNet, a provider of diagnostic imaging services through a network ofoutpatient imaging centers, has acquired the NeuroSciences ImagingCenter in Newark, Del.

Missouri medical center selects BridgeHead for PACS archiving, backup

Western Missouri Medical Center has purchased BridgeHead Software’s BH PACStore and HT Backup for PACS archiving and backup.

Stereoscopic 3D mammography enhances lesion detection

TUCSON, Ariz.—Stereoscopic 3D full-field digital mammography can provide greater positive lesion detection and reduce false-negative lesion detection, according to results of three-year clinical trial conducted at the Emory University Breast Imaging Center in Atlanta, and presented at the International Workshop on Digital Mammography this week.

Hitachi scores $3M MRI deal with Pennsylvania hospital

St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., has invested more than $3million to purchase Hitachi Medical System’s Oasis high-field open MRIsystem.

Riverain to provide VA hospitals with chest x-ray CAD

Riverain Medical, a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) anddiagnostic technologies, has received a Veterans Affairs (VA) contractfor its OnGuard chest x-ray CAD technology.

Illinois hospital renews Emageon contract

Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., has renewed its agreement with Emageon of Birmingham, Ala., until 2013.

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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