Practice Management

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

Columbia taps Greencastle for Allscripts EHR rollout

Greencastle Consulting, a project management company, will manage thedeployment of an EHR system for Columbia University Medical Center’sphysician group, the faculty practice organization of the College ofPhysicians and Surgeons in New York City.

Carestream Health receives global orders for healthcare information systems

Carestream Health has signed contracts for its Kodak Carestream PACSand RIS solutions with several healthcare facilities around the world.

Fonar nets N.Y. install

Health Diagnostics (HD) of New York City has ordered six of Fonar’s Upright Multi-Position MRIs.

MedSeek reaps 17 software, consulting projects

MedSeek, a provider of Enterprise eHealth services, has gained 17software and consulting projects with new and existing hospitalcustomers during third quarter of 2007.

NovaRad secures new contract from Mass. clinic

RIS and PACS developer NovaRad reported that it has been contracted toprovide its NovaPACS product to North Shore Podiatry of Peabody, Mass.

GE provides CT services for California medical group

Cardiovascular Medical Group of Southern California (CVMG) hasimplemented GE Healthcare’s SnapShot Pulse for the LightSpeed VCT64-slice CT system.

Kai Sensors nets army contract

Kai Sensors, a Honolulu-based developer of wireless heart rate andrespiration sensing technology, has secured the first phase of a U.S.Army contract through a wholly owned subsidiary that could be worth upto $850,000 for the development of sensor and communication technologyon a single chip.

UPenn hospital chooses Healthworks for electrophysiology education

The Hospital of the University of the Pennsylvania (HUP) has selectedHealthworks to provide cardiovascular specialty education and trainingservices for newly hired nurses and technical clinical specialistsworking in the electrophysiology laboratories.

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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