Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
The impending shortage pertains to molybdenum-99, or Mo-99. A structural issue has occurred with a pipe within the high-flux reactor in Petten, Netherlands, which will require an immediate repair.
In a more perfect world, legal cases against radiologists would solely focus on whether or not the defendant’s misdiagnosis reflected a true failure to uphold the standard of care.
Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site was significantly impacted by unprecedented rain and storm surge from Hurricane Helene hitting western North Carolina.
Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.
Ultrasound Associates of Alexandria, Va., has purchased CarestreamHealth’s Kodak Carestream Outpatient Solution, a new turnkey digitalimaging and information management package designed for imagingcenters.
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 Global Technologies, a provider of medical records managementservices, will provide its eHealthConnect service to clinicaldepartments within Henry Ford Health System of Detroit.
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.
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.
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.