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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.