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.
Agfa HealthCare has signed a second, five-year agreement to provideEnterprise PACS technology for the Florida Division of Adventist HealthSystem in Orlando.
Westchester Medical Center has selected the Canopy care managementsystem from Allscripts, a provider of clinical software, connectivityand information services, to help manage and coordinate care for itspatients.
Coastal Family Health Center of Biloxi, Miss., and the MississippiHealthSafeNet High Impact EHR Project have selected HealthPort for itsregional EMR system deployment.
The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System hasselected the eClinicalWorks’ EMR and practice management system,along with its Patient Portal for SCLHS’ ambulatory electronic healthrecord initiative.
Baptist Health System of Birmingham, Ala., has installed 25 TIMS DICOMSystems from Foresight Imaging, an developer of imaging devices, in itsvarious hospitals.
Agfa HealthCare has completed the installation of its Orbis hospitalinformation system along with its Impax PACS product throughout theSalzburger Landeskliniken healthcare system in Austria.
Howard Regional Health System and St. Joseph Hospital, both located inKokomo, Ind., are positioned to become part of the Indiana HealthInformation Exchange’s clinical messaging service network,called the DOCS4DOCS service.
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.