Practice Management

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

California hospital installs new ED system

West Anaheim Medical Center, an affiliate of Prime Healthcare Services, has installed Emergency Department Management (EDM), a patienttracking and integrated data system housed with the MediTech system.

Quality Associates wins $20M FDA contract

The FDA has awarded Quality Associates, a document management, imagingand archiving service provider, with a five-year, $20 million contractto digitize, index and consolidate approximately 20 million pages ofdocumentation and materials at more than 20 FDA facilities across theUnited States.

Nightingale, Healthcare South sign EMR agreement

Nightingale Informatix, a healthcare application service provider of electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software,has signed a $475,000 contract with Healthcare South, a group practiceof 45 healthcare providers at 11 private offices throughout the Bostonarea.

Sorna scores VA orders

Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Centers in six states have placed multipleorders for eXpedo publishing systems from the Eagan, Minn.-based Sorna.

Imagine Software lands three new contracts

Imagine Software announced that it has three new contracts for its IMAGINEradiology product.

San Sebastian selects RIS Concepts

San Sebastian Radiology, a multi-modality imaging center andteleradiology group in Puerto Rico, has chosen RIS Concepts’radiologist RAD-RIS for exam tracking, reporting and automated deliveryworkflow.

Radiology's Best-kept Secret: RIS-driven PACS Workflow

EMC

Children’s Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham deployed PACS four years ago in crisis mode. Prior to PACS implementation, within a few months, the radiology department had lost three of its eight radiologists.

Imaging + IT = Knowledge

2007 will go down in history in the imaging marketplace. It’s the yearthree little letters—DRA—impacted the market more strongly thananything ever before.

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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