Practice Management

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

ELA Medical places Ovatio CRT

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 wins cardiovascular PACS contract

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 nets Texas hospital install

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.

Fujitsu completes three-year rollout

Fujitsu Computer Systems has deployed 2,500 tablet PCs to the Marshfield Clinic of Marshfield, Wis.

Italian oncology center chooses IntraOp for cancer treatment

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.

Northridge Hospital Medical selects Medhost

Medhost of Addison, Texas, has announced that Northridge HospitalMedical Center has implemented Medhost’s emergency departmentinformation system.

Nightingale inks 15-year contract

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).

GE Healthcare nets Havasu Regional Medical install

Havasu Regional Medical Center has installed the Infinia Hawkeye 4 SPECT/CT scanner from GE Healthcare.

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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