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.
Unisys Corporation has signed a global IT outsourcing agreement withElekta, a Swedish-based provider of radiation therapy devices andinformation systems.
Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) will implement Agfa HealthCare’s Impax PACS, RIS and speech recognition systems. The Cornwall, Ontario-based CCH is an acute-care hospital with approximately 200 beds located in two sites.
The healthcare division of Richardson Electronics has received approvalfrom the U.S. Veteran’s Administration (VA) Healthcare System for itsnew diagnostic imaging workstation platform.
Four Points Technology will provide the InterSystems’ Cache database tothe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a contract that has an initialvalue of approximately $34.9 million.
Plantation MRI, a diagnostic imaging center in Plantation, Fla., hasselected RIS Concepts to supply its digital services to support thetracking and reporting of diagnostic exams.
This month, the Scottish Executive has begun a national PACS deploymentin Scotland, after successful pilots in hospitals across Glasgow,Dumfries and Galloway.
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.