Practice Management

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

National provider selects NextGen revenue cycle management services

Health Management Associates (HMA), an operator of general acute care,non-urban hospitals located throughout the U.S., has executed anagreement to utilize revenue cycle management services from NextGenHealthcare’s Practice Solutions Division.

British children?s hospital selects Siemens Artis zee

The Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust, Alder Hey, in Liverpool,England, has installed the Artis zee, a biplane flat detectorangiocardiography system from Siemens Healthcare.

McKesson donates EHR to San Diego non-profit

McKesson has donated its Practice Partner Patient Records EHR software to San Diego-based Father Joe's Villages, a non-profit organization that provides care to thousands of indigent patients in California.

U.K. hospital deploys Siemens digital cath lab

Taunton and Somerset Hospital in England has deployed an Axiom Artis dFC imaging system from Siemens Healthcare in its cardiac cath lab.

Digital Healthcare appointed to NHS Framework contract

The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has appointedDigital Healthcare of Cambridge, England, to its NHS Additional SupplyCapability & Capacity Framework to supply IT products andservices to the NHS.

Three academic medical centers choose eHealth Global

Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, the University of MichiganHealth System, and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences haveselected the eHealthConnect service from eHealth Global to streamlinemedical records management in the solid organ transplant departmentswithin each facility.

Toshiba nets Aquilion install at Boston hospital

Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its Aquilion One dynamicvolume CT system at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teachinghospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

California IPA selects NextGen software solutions

Monarch HealthCare, an independent practice associations (IPA) andmedical groups, has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems’suite of enterprise software solutions to enhance the quality of careits member physicians provide.

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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