Practice Management

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

Swiss Institute chooses Zecotek for PET medical imaging program

Paul Scherrer Institute of Villigen, Switzerland, has selectedZecotek's proprietary micro-pixel avalanche photo diodes fortrials in its PET medical imaging program.

New York healthcare system chooses Exogen

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has chosen Exogen, abusiness solutions company and wholly owned subsidiary of TechnologySolutions Company, to manage the data migration and consolidation ofmedical image data from its systems to its enterprise medical imagestorage system.

Welsh hospital to integrate Barco's advanced visualization tool

Glan Clwyd Hospital in Wales has invested significantly to integrateBarco’s Voxar 3D Enterprise into its Fujifilm Synapse PACS.

Wayport signs WiFi agreement with Berkshire Health Systems

Wayport, a provider of public and private network support andintegration for healthcare facilities, has entered an agreement withBerkshire Health Systems of Pittsfield, Mass., to provide wirelessinternet service in its two hospitals: Berkshire Medical Center andFairview Hospital.

Salem Radiology selects Orion Health's Rhapsody

Salem Radiology Consultants has selected the Rhapsody IntegrationEngine from Orion Health to serve as a platform to exchange patienthealth data between their facility and physicians' offices throughoutthe region.

InterSystems, Oleen, SurgiDat win VA contract

InterSystems, a healthcare database and software developer, and Oleen,an InterSystems implementation partner, have won a contract to providethe InterSystems CACHÉ-based SurgiDat system to the Department ofVeterans Affairs (VA).

Ohio hospital opens all-digital facility with McKesson IT system

Dublin Methodist Hospital in Ohio, part of OhioHealth, is opening anall-digital, full-service community hospital, using McKesson’s EHRsystem, Horizon Clinicals suite.

Indiana awards EDS Medicaid contract for $209M

Electronic Data Systems, (EDS) Indiana’s Medicaid partner, has beenawarded a $209.9 million, six-and-a-half-year contract to upgrade andcontinue to maintain the state’s Medicaid Management InformationSystems.

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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