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.
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.
Dec. 5 – Somerset Pediatric Group, an 18-physician, five-siteorganization, has selected Intergy from Sage Software, for thepractice’s EHR system.
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.
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.
Dec. 3—Ten Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals will use radiofrequency identification (RFID) robots from Aethon, designed to helptrack and deliver supplies.
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.
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.
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.