Practice Management

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

Minnesota children?s hospital chooses Medicalis for CDS

Minnesota Children's Hospital has selected Medicalis, a provider ofclinical decision support (CDS) solutions, to enhance and enable itsdiagnostic imaging ordering process.

Aspyra nets Elite Lab Services LIS install

Aspyra has contracted with Elite Lab Services, an independent clinicalreference laboratory in Tyler, Texas, to provide Aspyra’s CyberLabLaboratory Information System (LIS).

Houston breast clinic completes EBM Mammo PACS install

The Rose Breast Center in Houston is now operational with EBM PangeaMammo PACS, from EBM Technologies, a provider of web-enabled PACS andteleradiology products.

NovaRad signs two Tennessee PACS contracts

Coffey Family Medical Clinic in Oneida, Tenn. and Speight FamilyMedical in Atoka, Tenn., have selected NovaRad’s NovaPACS imagingtechnology, bringing the total number of facilities in the state usingNovaRad’s RIS and PACS technologies to 10.

Visage to provide Tufts Medical Center with thin client-based solution

Tufts Medical Center in Boston has chosen Visage Imaging, a whollyowned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, to provide a Visage CSThin Client/Server system with the fully integrated Visage CardiacAnalysis Package.

Cisco assists mobility at the Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic has deployed Cisco’s Unified Wireless Network and other mobility applications to improve its patient care.

OSF Home Care Services to deploy McKesson Horizon Homecare

OSF Home Care Services, a provider of homecare and hospice servicesacross Illinois and Michigan, has selected McKessons Horizon Homecaresolution to improve process efficiencies.

CDW nets Beth Israel EHR, PM deployment

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Boston is collaborating withCDW Healthcare to deploy a technology solution that will enableaffiliated physician practices to access Beth Israel’s EHR and practicemanagement (PM) software.

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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