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.
Trinity Medical Center has chosen Optio Healthcare for formsautomation, patient signature capture and electronic health recordsolutions, including Optio Deficiency Management.
Quantum Medical Imaging of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., has completed theinstallation of their dual-panel Digital System Upgrade at TobeyHospital’s existing Quantum Medical Q-Rad radiographic room, which thehospital purchased about a year ago.
Care Management International, a medical management and clinicalservices smart sourcing provider, will administer the enrollment phaseof a Member Outreach clinical trial at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Premier Purchasing Partners has awarded Hologic of Bedford, Mass., newcontracts for mammography and bone densitometry products, andpoint-of-sale service agreements.
eRAD, a provider of radiology workflow solutions, reported that duringOctober, it won 10 new contracts with various imagingcompanies for the eRAD PACS products, to improve the patient treatmentcycle.
IBM and business partner Mainsoft Corporation reported that Healthwaysof Nashville, Tenn., will deploy IBM’s WebSphere Portal as part of amove to streamline patient records and deliver health solutions acrossincompatible software platforms.
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.