Practice Management

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

Middle Eastern hospital implements Cerner health IT solutions

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.

HealthBridge taps CINA for Ohio data aggregation project

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.

Ohio health system selects Siemens hospital information system

EMH Regional Healthcare System has signed a contract with SiemensHealthcare to implement the Soarian hospital information systemthroughout all of its facilities.

California IPA selects NextGen software solutions

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.

Swedish hospital selects Varian linear accelerators

Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, will offer cancer patientsradiotherapy treatments using three RapidArc systems from VarianMedical Systems.

Two Ohio imaging centers choose NovaRad PACS

Central Ohio Primary Care in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, and Radiology inRowell, Ohio, have selected NovaRad’s NovaPACS imaging technology.

ACS expands Medicaid presence with $156M Tennessee contract

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 nets three-year Broadlane PACS contract

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.

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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