Practice Management

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

Carestream nets Virginia ultrasound practice contract

Ultrasound Associates of Alexandria, Va., has purchased CarestreamHealth’s Kodak Carestream Outpatient Solution, a new turnkey digitalimaging and information management package designed for imagingcenters.

Varian Medical equips two Swiss cancer centers with radiotherapy

The Clinique de Genolier and the Genève Centre de Radio-Oncologie, twonew private cancer centers in Switzerland, have installed radiotherapymachines from Varian Medical Systems.

eHealth provides services for Henry Ford Health System

eHealth Global Technologies, a provider of medical records managementservices, will provide its eHealthConnect service to clinicaldepartments within Henry Ford Health System of Detroit.

Catholic healthcare system selects PatientKeeper for information systems

Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based healthcare system, has selected PatientKeeper, a provider of integrated physician information systems, to support its ongoing physician affinity and medication safety initiatives.

Massachusetts health alliance chooses eClinicalWorks

Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association hasselected eClinicalWorks’ unified EMRs and practice management solution.

Virginia fire department selects Zoll Data for patient care reporting

Fairfax County fire and rescue department in Fairfax, Va., has installed RescueNet ePCR Suite and RescueNet FireRMS applications from Zoll Data Systems to improve fire rescue response.

Texas radiology firm chooses Zotec

Texas Radiology Associates in Plano, Texas, has selected Zotec Partners as its exclusive billing services provider.

Four pediatric groups select Sage EHR

Four pediatric practices in the United States have selected Intergy EHR by Sage as their EHR provider.

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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