Practice Management

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

InterSystems nets Pathology Associates Medical install

Dec. 10 – Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories has selectedthe InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database fromInterSystems as the database for their next generation laboratorybilling system.

Medipattern installs B-CAD in Mexico

Dec. 7 – Medipattern, a developer of computer-aideddetection (CAD) medical imaging software, has installed its latestversion of B-CAD 2.2, at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia inMexico City.

Brooklyn Hospital chooses Eclipsys

Dec. 7 – The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) in New York City willimplement Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager, including the modulesSunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Critical Care,Sunrise Emergency Care, Sunrise Pharmacy and Sunrise Knowledge-BasedMedication Administration.

HMS to supply InterMedical with IT infrastructure

Dec. 6 – InterMedical Hospital, a 35-bed acute care facility inColumbia, S.C., has selected Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) tosupply a full suite of financial software.

CareSpark taps Wellogic for physician portal

Dec. 6 – CareSpark has chosen Wellogic, a physician portal andelectronic medical records software company, to provide a unified viewof patient data exchanged via CareSpark’s health information exchangeand connected electronic health records systems, using Wellogic’sConsult physician portal.

Massachusetts medical center goes paperless with Biscom

Dec. 6 – North Shore Medical Center, a regional healthcare provider inMassachusetts, has implemented Biscom’s Faxcom Image Indexing solutionto transition their central scheduling process to a paperless workflow.

FAA purchases CompuMeds ECG machines

Dec. 6 – CompuMed has begun shipping its CardioGram enhancedelectrocardiogram (ECG) systems to Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Senior Aviation Medical Examiners (Sr. AME).

Colorado Hospital implements GE Centricity

Dec. 5 – The University of Colorado Hospital has gone live with GEHealthcare’s Centricity preoperative system to streamline surgicalservices across five business segments.

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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