Practice Management

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

Quantum equips Premier with radiography devices

Quantum Medical Imaging, a medical equipment manufacturer, has beenawarded a three-year contract with Premier, a group purchasingorganization.

Confirma adds its CADstream to prostate research sites

Confirma, an application-specific CAD for MRI provider, has installedits CADstream for prostate at research sites, including MRI at BethIsrael in Boston, Simonmed Imaging in Scottsdale, Ariz., Belfair inBelfair, Wash., and the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass.

Adapx orders digital pens from Anoto

The Seattle-based Adapx, a mobile data collection manufacturer, hasplaced an order of 5,000 units of digital pens from Anoto Group’s penmanufacturer partner, Maxwell.

Houston ED to use Patient Care Technologys tracking system

Emergency Health Centre in Houston has implemented the Amelior EDpatient tracking and charting system from Patient Care TechnologySystems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering of Mission Viejo,Calif.

Michigan Blue Cross to implement IT updates

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is planning to expand itshealthcare electronic data interchange clearinghouse and portal, whichadministers health benefits to more than 4.6 million members residingin Michigan.

Greenway Medical supplies EHR system for Mercy Health Partners

Greenway Medical Technologies, an ambulatory health IT provider, willimplement an application service provider-hosted EHR system foraffiliated physicians and physicians' practices of Mercy HealthPartners, a health network in Southwestern Ohio.

CareTech enhances IT at Ohio health system

Blanchard Valley Health System of Findlay, Ohio, has implementedVocera communications badges among its nurses, as well as aninteractive internet and email system from CareTech Solutions, an ITand health information management services provider for hospitals andhealthcare systems.

Sandia labs implement Allscripts EHR product

Sandia National Laboratories of Albuquerque, N.M., has deployedAllscripts’ integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practicemanagement software at its medical clinic.

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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