Practice Management

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

ACS signs $69M e-benefit contract with California

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has entered an agreement with thestate of California to provide electronic benefit transferservices to the California Health and Human Services Agency under aseven-year, $69 million contract, with additional three one-yearoptions available.

Elekta fills first New Zealand linear accelerator order

Auckland Radiation Oncology in Auckland, New Zealand, haspurchased an Elekta Synergy system with Mosaiq EMR and Elektavolumetric modulated arc therapy for delivery in April.

7 Medical expands PACS, EMR installs to three additional states

7 Medical Systems, a provider in on-demand PACS and EMR solutions forhealthcare, has signed eight new contracts for the quarter, which endedMarch 31.

Siemens completes Scottish mammography install

St John's Hospital in Livingston, Scotland, part of NHS Lothian'sUniversity Hospitals Division, has installed Siemens Healthcare’sfull-field digital mammography system.

Varian webs 60 RapidArc orders

Varian Medical Systems has received more than 60 orders for itsRapidArc radiotherapy product for image-guided intensity-modulatedradiotherapy (IMRT).

Washington Imaging Services taps NeoTool for interface engine

Washington Imaging Services (WIS) has installed NeoTool's NeoIntegrateinterface engine to replace older interfaces and build new interfacesto EMR systems.

London hospital taps Siemens for 1.5T MRI

Spire Southampton Hospital is investing £3 million ($5.95 million) in a new MRI facility, which includes the deployment of a Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI from Siemens Healthcare.

California medical group taps McKesson for revenue cycle management

The Lucile Packard Medical Group will outsource its revenue cycle operations to McKesson Provider Technologies, to improve operating efficiencies.

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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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