Practice Management

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

Allscripts nets installation trifecta

Healthcare information technology developer Allscripts has signed threecontracts for its electronic health record (EHR) and practicemanagement products at facilities in the U.S.

Philips scores Belgian install for SpeechMagic

Philips Speech Processing said that its SpeechMagic speech recognitiontechnology has been implemented facility-wide at AZ Sint-Jan Hospitalin Brugge, Belgium.

Axolotl inks Bloomington HIE contract

Healthcare information technology firm Axolotl of Mountain View,Calif., announced that it has been selected by Bloomington Hospital andthe physician community in Southern Indiana to deploy its Elysiumsystem across the HealthBridge health information exchange (HIE)network.

Neurostar hits sales century mark for first half of 2007

PACS provider Neurostar Solutions reported that more than 100 siteshave selected the Atlanta-based firm’s Virtual Radiology Network (VRN)PACS for the management and archiving of medical images during thefirst six months of 2007.

Aurora places technology at Hattiesburg

Aurora Imaging Technology reported that its Aurora 1.5-Tesla dedicatedbreast MRI system has been installed and is in operation at the BreastCenter of Hattiesburg Clinic, located in Hattiesburg, Miss.

IBM selected by University Hospital Ghent

IBM and Mainsoft, an independent software developer and IBM businesspartner, announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent)has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-servicevirtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students,healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and theirfamilies that visit the hospital each year.

Allscripts bolsters client roster

Healthcare information systems developer Allscripts reported thatapplication service provider (ASP) Electronic Medical Resources ofHouston will provide the Allscripts electronic health record (EHR) andpractice management products to physicians in Independent PracticeAssociations (IPAs) in the U.S.

DR Systems nets new installs

RIS and PACS developer DR Systems of San Diego reported that is has signed $5.6 million in new business.

Around the web

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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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