Practice Management

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

Agfa completes phase one of Belgian hospital install

Agfa HealthCare has completed the first implementation phase of theOrbis hospital information system at the AZ Groeninge hospital inKortrijk, Belgium.

Elekta taps Unisys for IT outsourcing

Unisys Corporation has signed a global IT outsourcing agreement withElekta, a Swedish-based provider of radiation therapy devices andinformation systems.

Agfa nets Ontario hospital install

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.

Richardson Electronics gets VA nod for imaging workstation

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, InterSystems partner for VA contract

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.

Whittington pilots McKesson clinician portal

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust of London will pilot a new, singlesign-on gateway portal—the Horizon Physician Portal from McKesson.

Plantation MRI chooses RIS Concepts

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.

NHS Scotland ready for national PACS roll out

This month, the Scottish Executive has begun a national PACS deploymentin Scotland, after successful pilots in hospitals across Glasgow,Dumfries and Galloway.

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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