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.
Ingenix, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., has entered into a strategicpartnership with Precyse Solutions in Wayne, Pa., to provide hospitalswith a package of services to help prepare for Medicare’s newseverity-adjusted diagnosis-related groups.
Aurora Imaging Technology of North Andover, Mass., has implemented theAurora 1.5 Tesla dedicated breast MRI system at Englewood Hospital andMedical Center in New Jersey.
Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC), a digital radiography technologycompany, has recently completed its 50th shipment of its charge-coupleddevice-based DR technology to Latin America.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, a healthcare providerserving approximately 4.1 million members, has chosen Benefitfocus toprovide web-based billing services and invoice consolidation for itsgroup operations.
Agfa HealthCare is currently introducing its Orbis hospital informationsystem in the Rangauklinik Ansbach, a medical rehabilitationcenter, near Nuremberg, Germany.
Oncology treatment device developer BSD Medical said that NortheastRadiation Oncology Center in Scranton, Pa., has purchased and installedthe Salt Lake City-based firm’s BSD-500 hyperthermia therapy system.
Renaissance Imaging Medical Associates has partnered withVanowen Radiology to provide sub-specialized diagnostics for ValleyPresbyterian Hospital’s Departments of Imaging Services.
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.