Practice Management

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

Medipattern nets Italian install

General Hospital in Gorizia, Italy, has installed Medipattern’s B-CAD 2.0.

Midlands Orthopedics goes live with AccessMED PACS

Midlands Orthopedics, P.A. has implemented the latest version of Aspyra’s AccessMED PACS version 6.2.

German Hospital chooses Sectra PACS

The Dusseldorf University Hospital in Germany has signed a multi-yearcontract with Sectra for its PACS products and services.

VA awards QuadraMed for $22M contract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has again awarded QuadraMed anannual task order contract under its existing blanket purchaseagreement with a stated value of approximately $21.8 million.

Idaho Medicaid grants Unisys $168M contract

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has awarded Unisystwo seven-year, fixed-price contracts to provide systems andoperational services as fiscal agent for the state’s Medicaid program.

Hi-Art system makes Swiss debut

The University Hospital of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland,has begun treating patients with the TomoTherapy Hi-Art treatmentsystem.

Medsphere completes EHR deployment in two West Virginia hospitals

Medsphere Systems has deployed its OpenVista EHR platform at WelchCommunity Hospital and Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital in WestVirginia, two of seven state-operated hospitals that will be equippedwith OpenVista under a contract to improve West Virginia's healthcaresystem.

University of Michigan chooses InnerWireless to track emergency drugs

The University of Michigan Health System Pharmacy Department willdeploy the PanGo, real-time location system management platform fromInnerWireless on the university’s medical campus.

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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