Practice Management

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

Ohio health system chooses Aurora

The Toledo Hospital Breast Care Center in Ohio, in conjunction withToledo Radiological Associates, has installed Aurora ImagingTechnology’s 1.5 Tesla breast MRI system.

Thoroughbred auction house converts to digital radiography with Eklin

Keeneland, a thoroughbred auction facility, has added 20 reviewstations from Elkin Medical Systems for a total of 32 image reviewworkstations for its 2007 Yearling Sale.

Louisiana Blue Cross selects MEDecision

MEDecision, a provider of healthcare management software, services andclinical content, will deliver its Collaborative Care Managementsoftware to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana of Baton Rouge.

Carestream aids rural healthcare in China

Carestream Health has joined forces with China’s Ministry of Health andthe Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Peoples Government to establish adigital-information network for rural healthcare and to promote thedevelopment of the rural economy.

University of Maryland chooses InnerWireless

University of Maryland Medical Center’s radiation oncology departmentin Baltimore has deployed InnerWireless’ PanGo real-time locationsystem.

Australian imaging chain chooses PACS from Intelerad

Intelerad Medical Systems has signed a new agreement with I-MED Networkof Australia to expand IntelePACS across its chain of diagnosticimaging clinics.

NovaRad nets three more installs

NovaRad has secured NovaPACS contracts with three additional imaging centers in Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Utah.

Eastlake Radiology selects RIS Concepts

Eastlake Radiology has chosen RIS Concepts’ RIS to manage workflow intheir new multi-modality imaging facility in Hoffman, Texas.

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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