Practice Management

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

IT companies help with new DRG prep

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.

Auroras MRI system added to N.J. hospital

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.

IDCs Latin American shipments hit 50

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 of Florida selects e-billing service

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 adds to Orbis installs

Agfa HealthCare is currently introducing its Orbis hospital informationsystem in the Rangauklinik Ansbach, a medical rehabilitationcenter, near Nuremberg, Germany.

BSD nets placement at Northeast Radiation Oncology

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.

Siemens equips Raleigh radiology center

Siemens Medical Solutions has installed its Magnetom Espree, anopen-bore 1.5-Tesla MRI system at Raleigh Radiology Cedarhurst in N.C.

Renaissance Imaging to provide imaging services to Valley Presbyterian

Renaissance Imaging Medical Associates has partnered withVanowen Radiology to provide sub-specialized diagnostics for ValleyPresbyterian Hospital’s Departments of Imaging Services.

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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