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.
The Toledo Hospital Breast Care Center in Ohio, in conjunction withToledo Radiological Associates, has installed Aurora ImagingTechnology’s 1.5 Tesla breast MRI system.
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.
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 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 Medical Center’s radiation oncology departmentin Baltimore has deployed InnerWireless’ PanGo real-time locationsystem.
Intelerad Medical Systems has signed a new agreement with I-MED Networkof Australia to expand IntelePACS across its chain of diagnosticimaging clinics.
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.