Practice Management

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

Sectra signs Spanish mammo agreement

Sectra, a Linköping, Sweden-based developer of diagnostic image devicesand information systems, reported that the Hospital Oncológico in SanSebastián, Spain, has selected the vendor’s digital mammography systemfor deployment at its facility.

Chinese install notched by Imaging Diagnostic Systems

Imaging Diagnostic Systems of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reported that it has installed a CT laser mammography (CTLM) system at the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital in Tianjin, China.

Optio wins Natchez EHR contract

Healthcare information systems developer Optio Healthcare said thatNatchez Regional Medical Center (NRMC), a 179-bed hospital in Natchez,Miss., has selected Optio’s subscription-based EHR, forms automation,document management, and patient-signature capture products.

ECRI nabs U.S. Air Force contract

The U.S. Air Force awarded ECRI Institute, a nonprofit medical researchorganization, a new contract to deploy its Alerts Tracker, a web-based,automated hazard and recall alert management system, at 80 Air Forcefacilities worldwide.

Varians Atria networks six U.K. hospitals

Six hospitals in northern England are implementing Varian MedicalSystems’ Aria for medical oncology system to enable them to function asone clinical network.

Agfa installs DMS in German hospital

Agfa HealthCare installed the HYDMedia archiving and documentmanagement system (DMS) at the Marienhospital in Osnabrück, part of theManagement katholischer Krankenhäuser der Region Osnabrück (MKO)holding, in northern Germany.

im3D nets 13 sales in Italy

Medical imaging system provider im3D/Medical Imaging Lab has installedits Cad-Colon diagnostic system in 13 healthcare facilities throughoutItaly, where it will assist medical specialists in the diagnosis andprevention of colorectal tumors, the Torino, Italy-based company said.

Imaging Diagnostics gets Malaysian install

Imaging Diagnostic Systems of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reported that ithas shipped its CT Laser Mammography (CTLM) product to the UniversitiPutra Malaysia (UPM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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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