Practice Management

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

ThinAir Data nets three Q1 RIS contracts

ThinAir Data’s TeleRIS, a RIS built to address the reporting andworkflow challenges of reading for multiple contracts and facilities, chalked up three installs in the first quarter of 2008.

Martin Memorial selects Allscripts for EHR, practice management

Martin Memorial Health Systems has selected the Allscripts EHRand practice management solution to automate clinical andfinancial operations for its physician group.

MedcomSoft founder, CEO steps down, other execs reshuffled

Sami Aita, MD, MedcomSoft’s founder, has agreed to step down as CEO anddirector but will remain available as an advisor to the company.

GE nets Centricity Enterprise install in North Carolina

Moses Cone Health System, a five-hospital system based in NorthCarolina, has gone live with the latest version 6.1 of GE Healthcare’sCentricity Enterprise Solution.

Mexico hospital deploys EBM web-based PACS

Galenia Hospital in Cancun, Mexico, has gone live with a multi-department web-based PACS from EBM Technologies.

AMA grades health insurers on physician reimbursements

Physicians are spending up to 14 percent of their total collections to obtain accurate payment for their services, but health insurers and other third-party payors may still inappropriately delay, deny or significantly reduce payments. In response, the American Medical Association (AMA) has created a report card to grade health insurers on how quickly and accurately physicians receive payment.

Commercial finance company buys MarCap

Tygris Commercial Finance Group, a commercial finance company, has completed its acquisition of MarCap, a middle-market healthcare equipment finance company headquartered in Chicago.

IDC wins DR contract for eight military hospitals in Pakistan

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has started installing the X-Series 2200 DR systems in eight A-Class military hospitals ascontracted by the government of Pakistan.

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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