Practice Management

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

Agfa and Adventist ink $35 million contract

Agfa HealthCare has signed a second, five-year agreement to provideEnterprise PACS technology for the Florida Division of Adventist HealthSystem in Orlando.

N.Y. hospital selects Allscripts

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.

Mississippi updates post-Katrina healthcare with HSRA grant

Coastal Family Health Center of Biloxi, Miss., and the MississippiHealthSafeNet High Impact EHR Project have selected HealthPort for itsregional EMR system deployment.

Sisters of Charity health system selects eClinicalWorks

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.

Alabama health system acquires 25 DICOM units from Foresight Imaging

Baptist Health System of Birmingham, Ala., has installed 25 TIMS DICOMSystems from Foresight Imaging, an developer of imaging devices, in itsvarious hospitals.

Agfa completes Salzburg health system deployment

Agfa HealthCare has completed the installation of its Orbis hospitalinformation system along with its Impax PACS product throughout theSalzburger Landeskliniken healthcare system in Austria.

Amicas nets three contracts

Amicas, a web-based PACS provider, has signed three contracts in Chico,Calif.; Tampa, Fla.; and St. Louis for its Vision Series Financialsproduct.

Two hospitals to join Indiana Health Information Exchange

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.

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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