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.
Sorin Group subsidiary ELA Medical, a cardiovascular device developer,reported that it has conducted the first U.S. installation of itsOvatio CRT, a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator.
Digisonics, a provider of cardiovascular image management and reportingsystems, has been awarded a multi-modality, multi-site PACS contractwith Plaza Medical Group in Oklahoma City.
Toshiba America Medical Systems recently completed its first U.S.installation of the Infinix CF-i/SP x-ray system at Arlington MemorialHospital, a 369-bed, acute-care full-service medical center inArlington, Texas.
The Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (CRO) in Aviano, Italy, hasselected Mobetron, a portable, self-shielding electron-beam linearaccelerator for intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOERT)developed by IntraOp Medical.
Medhost of Addison, Texas, has announced that Northridge HospitalMedical Center has implemented Medhost’s emergency departmentinformation system.
Nightingale Informatix, a healthcare application service provider (ASP)of electronic medical record (EMR) software, said that it has signed a15-year agreement with OntarioMD for its Nightingale on Demand,clinical management system (CMS).
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.