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.
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.
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.
Memorial Medical Center, a regional healthcare provider, has installedtwo z.one ultrasound systems from Zonare Medical Systems in the center’s radiology department.
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 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.
Kronoberg County in the south of Sweden has chosen Cambio's Cosmic todeploy integrated electronic patient records to all authorizedhealth professionals.
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).
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.