Practice Management

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

Scantek nets two Brazilian mammo contracts

Scantek Medical’s wholly owned subsidiary, Scantek Medical do Brasil,will sell an aggregate of 70,000 units of its BreastCare/BreastAlertdifferential temperature sensor product to two companies in Brazil.

Indiana clinic completes eRAD PACS install

The Hammond Clinic in Munster, Ind., is now operational with an eRadPACS, from eRAD, a provider of web-enabled PACS and teleradiologyproducts.

U.S. military embraces Nuance clinical documentation software

The U.S. Military Health System over the past year has adopted Nuance Communication's Dictaphone Healthcare division's Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical software.

In-progress Australian university hospital selects Elekta

Elekta has been selected as the main provider of a suite of cancer andneurosurgical treatment solutions, as well as supporting IT systems, tothe new Macquarie University Private Hospital in Killara, Australia,which is currently under construction.

NHS selects Advanced Input hypoallergenic keyboards

The Connecting for Health Agency within the U.K. National HealthService (NHS) has purchased 7,500 Medigenic infection resistantkeyboards from Advanced Input Systems, for use in English hospitals tohelp improve patient safety by preventing the spread of hospitalinfections.

Indian hospital selects NovaRad RIS, PACS

Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, a Harvard Medical-associated international institution in Chennai, India, has selected NovaRad's NovaRIS and NovaPACS.

FONAR nets Australia Upright MRI install

FONAR has expanded its international reach with a sale of its UprightMulti-Position MRI to a group medical practice in Australia.

Hologic to install 17 digital mammo systems in The Netherlands

Hologic has received an order for 17 Selenia digital mammography mobilesystems, the first order placed under The Netherlands Breast CancerScreening Tender.

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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