Practice Management

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

MedHost provides software for Montana emergency department

MedHost, a medical software services provider, has automated theemergency department of Kalispell Regional Medical Center inKalispell, Mont. with its emergency department information system full-suite software.

Toshiba equips new $38 million Pennsylvania medical center

In a few weeks, the Fulton County Medical Center ofMcConnellsburg, Pa., will complete its new $37.5 million facility, butToshiba is already providing its diagnostic technologies.

Zonare updates central California health system

Memorial Medical Center, a regional healthcare provider, has installedtwo z.one ultrasound systems from Zonare Medical Systems in the center’s radiology department.

Ingenix to provide EDI services for Aetna

Ingenix, a health IT company, has signed two agreements with Aetna to provide electronic data interchange (EDI) services.

Carestream nabs VA install

Carestream Health has secured a multi-million-dollar order with theVeterans Health Administration’s New England region, also known asVeterans Integrated Systems Network 1, for its healthcare ITsystems.

Siemens to implement EPR system in German health system

Siemens Medical Solutions will implement up to one million web-basedelectronic patient records (EPRs) per year for the patients of RhoenKlinikum, a German private hospital group.

Cambio deploys EPRs throughout a southern Swedish county

Kronoberg County in the south of Sweden has chosen Cambio's Cosmic todeploy integrated electronic patient records to all authorizedhealth professionals.

Bronx RHIO bulks up membership

The addition of St. Barnabas Hospital and the Visiting Nurse Service ofNew York amounts to 11 corporate members for the Bronx regional healthinformation organization (RHIO).

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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