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.
Tawam Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has implementedmultiple Cerner Millennium healthcare IT solutions to automateprocesses in the radiology, pathology, pharmacy, surgery, emergency andscheduling and registration departments.
Clinical Integration Networks of America (CINA), a developer ofelectronic solutions, will assist HealthBridge, a large communityhealth information exchange in the United States, in a data extractionand aggregation project to satisfy the requirements of a federallyfunded, community-wide project to be initiated throughout Cincinnati.
EMH Regional Healthcare System has signed a contract with SiemensHealthcare to implement the Soarian hospital information systemthroughout all of its facilities.
Monarch HealthCare, an independent practice association (IPA) andmedical group, has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems’suite of enterprise software solutions to enhance the quality of patient care.
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has signed a $156 million, five-yearcontract with the state of Tennessee, expanding its Medicaidpresence to include 14 states and the Washington, D.C.
ScImage, an enterprise imaging informatics company, has been awarded athree-year contract with Broadlane for its multi-department PACS forradiology, cardiology and other image-producing departments.
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.