Practice Management

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

Systema signs hospital IT deal in Upper Austria

Austrian healthcare software provider Systema Human Information Systems hassigned a deal for €7 million ($9.89 million U.S.) to installinformation systems at 11 hospitals in Upper Austria.

Denver Health chooses InnerWireless for RFID implementation

Denver Health has expanded its RFID tracking in support of aninitiative from hospital administrators to identify and reduce wasteusing Vision from InnerWireless, an in-building wireless servicesprovider.

Texas Childrens Hospital converts to EMRs with Hyland

Texas Children’s Hospital of Houston has chosen document managementservices from Hyland Software, a Cleveland-based developer of theOnBase enterprise content management software suite.

MGH expands OR dashboard from LiveData

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has expanded its deployment ofLiveData’s OR-Dashboard, and incorporated its functionality into plansfor future OR design, construction and renovation.

ACS nets $130 million Alaskan contract

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has chosenAffiliated Computer Services (ACS) to design, develop, implement andoperate a new Medicaid management information system.

CMS chooses Citizant for business modernization

Citizant, a Chantilly, Va.-based provider of business and technicalsolutions to civilian and military government organizations, has won a$1 million contract to support enterprise architecture development atthe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Hologic, Kubtec partner on training

Women’s imaging vendor Hologic and Kub Technologies (Kubtec) havealigned to offer stereotactic breast biopsy technology training at theDavid Ellenbogen Center for Health Sciences Education in Bedford, Mass.

Hansen places Sensei system at St. Davids

Hansen Medical, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of medicalrobotics for positioning, manipulation and control of catheters andcatheter-based technologies, has installed its Sensei robotic cathetersystem and Artisan Control catheter technology at St. David’s MedicalCenter in Austin, Texas.

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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