Practice Management

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

IBA inks Saudi Arabian contract

Dec. 5 – Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has sold a Cyclone 30 to the KingFaisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, in Riyadh, SaudiArabia, for the production of imaging radioisotopes.

Mississippi medical center chooses NovaRad

Dec. 5 – Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland, Miss., has signed a contract to install NovaRad’s NovaPACS.

New Jersey pediatric group selects Sages EHR

Dec. 5 – Somerset Pediatric Group, an 18-physician, five-siteorganization, has selected Intergy from Sage Software, for thepractice’s EHR system.

Ohio hospital chooses CareTech

Dec. 4—The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has signed a multi-year, IT infrastructure outsourcing contract with CareTechSolutions, a healthcare IT and health information management servicesprovider for hospitals and health systems.

California health network selects eClinicalWorks

Dec. 4—Redwood Community Health Coalition has purchased licensesof eClinicalWorks unified EMRs and practice management solution, alongwith Patient Portal and eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange for10 community health centers operating 18 sites of care.

Aethon RFID robots installed in 10 VA hospitals

Dec. 3—Ten Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals will use radiofrequency identification (RFID) robots from Aethon, designed to helptrack and deliver supplies.

Southern health system deploys EMC solution

Dec. 3—Wellmont Health System has deployed EMC’s informationinfrastructure software to manage its library of digital medical imagessuch as x-rays, ultrasounds and MRIs.

Imaging On Call signs with Caritas Healthcare

Dec. 3—Imaging On Call, a teleradiology provider, has signed acontract with St. John’s Caritas Healthcare, which operates St. John’sHospital and Mary Immaculate Hospital, both in Queens, NY.

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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