Practice Management

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

Carestream nets CAD contracts

Carestream Health reported that it has recently signed contracts for itsKodak mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) system with multiplebreast imaging facilities in the United States.

Elekta notches St. Petersburg Gamma Knife order

Swedish radiotherapy device developer Elekta reported that it hadreceived an order to deliver its Leksell Gamma Knife 4C to a newhospital under construction in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Carestream Health signs Scottish access agreement

Carestream Health announced the signing of an access agreement for itsPACS and information management solutions (IMS) with the Lothian HealthBoard in Scotland, as part of its contract with National ServicesScotland (NSS), the procurement body for National Health Service (NHS)Scotland, for the national PACS project.

OrthoView inks Biomet contract

OrthoView recently concluded a deal with Biomet Orthopedics of Warsaw,Ind., to supply up to a 1000 copies of a Biomet-specific version ofMeridian Technique’s OrthoView digital orthopaedic planning andtemplating software.

MedQuist makes Mississippi move

Speech recognition technology provider MedQuist of Mount Laurel, N.J.,said that Radiological Group of Jackson, Miss., has selected itsSpeechQ for Radiology as a front-end automated speech recognitionsystem.

Aurora sets sights on strada in Italy

MRI breast imaging developer Aurora Imaging Technology said that it hasintroduced a mobile Aurora 1.5-Tesla MRI breast imaging system in Italy.

IsoRay adds Proxcelan sites

Therapeutic radiopharmaceutical developer IsoRay Medical reported thatthe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, andArizona Oncology Services (AOS) of Phoenix are two of the latestmedical facilities offering prostate cancer patients the company’sProxcelan brachytherapy seeds, a proprietary cesium-131 formulation.

Zotec inks Eastern Radiologists contract

Practice management, RIS, and billing information systems developerZotec Partners of Indianapolis reported that it has been selected byEastern Radiologists of North Carolina to provide the group with itsRIS and billing products.

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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