Practice Management

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

California childrens hospital opts for NeuroLogica scanner

NeuroLogica has installed a CereTom CT scanner at the Children’s Hospital& Research Center Oakland in Calif., which will allow hospitaltechnologists to take a CT scan of a child’s brain at their bedside,according to the based medical equipment developer.

Orion Health integration system chosen by Indiana hospital

Marion General Hospital in Marion, Ind., has selected OrionHealth’s Rhapsody integration engine to manage message exchanges from acentral system.

Hawaii Medicare extends contract with ACS

Hawaii Department of Human Services' Med-QUEST Division has extendedits contract with Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a businessprocess outsourcing and IT provider, to continue providing fiscal agentand pharmacy benefits management services to the state's Medicaidprogram.

Neurognostics fMRI to be used in Huntingtons disease study

Neurognostics, a Milwaukee-based provider of integrated functional MRimaging (fMRI) services, has signed an agreement to install its fMRIsystem at The Cleveland Clinic and The University of Iowa for amulti-center Huntington's disease study.

Siemens supplies new London cardiovascular MR center

Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, has opened its new Centre forCardiovascular MR with two Magnetom Avanto MRI scanners and aninterventional cardiac catheterization laboratory from Siemens MedicalSolutions.

More Mississippi health systems upgrade after Hurricane Katrina

South Mississippi Urgent Care has contracted PracticeIT, whichspecializes in EMR and handheld diagnostic devices, to implement a newEMR system to help clinics serve the healthcare needs of its patients,especially during hurricane seasons.

West Penn Allegheny Health System choose Allscripts as EHR provider

West Penn Allegheny Health System has selected Allscripts of Chicago as its EHR provider for its primary care network.

British cardiac center chooses projectiondesign

Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, a heart treatment center housed atSouthampton University Hospital, chose a cineo3+ 1080 DLP projectorfrom Norwegian manufacturer projectiondesign to act as its imagesource.

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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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