Practice Management

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

ev3 awarded Novation contracts

Interventional device developer ev3 of Plymouth, Mass., reported thatit has been awarded three 3-year contracts by group purchasingorganization Novation.

Arrowhead, Paragon ink cardiovascular nanotube development pact

Arrowhead Research and Paragon Intellectual Properties announced todaythat Arrowhead’s majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym, has signed anexclusive license agreement with Paragon’s majority-owned subsidiary,Nanotech Catheter Solutions (NCS).

PHTS scores Coburg contract

Personal HealthCare Telemedicine Services (PHTS) Telemedizin, aDüsseldorf, Germany-based subsidiary of SHL TeleMedicine of Zurich,Switzerland, reported that it has been contracted to providetelemedicine services in the Coburg region of Germany.

Z.One ultra installed at Montgomery Vascular

Ultrasound system developer Zonare Medical Systems reported that it hasinstalled its z.one ultra system at Montgomery Vascular Surgery.

MedCath enters into joint venture with Catholic Health East subsidiary

MedCath Partners is participating in a new venture to manage thecatheterization laboratories of St. Francis Healthcare Services ofWilmington, Del.

McKesson installs integrated perinatal system at St. Lukes

Healthcare information technology developer McKesson said it hassuccessfully implemented its Horizon Perinatal Care system at St.Luke’s Hospital-Allentown, Pa., campus, part of the St. Luke’s Hospital& Health Network in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Allscripts adds Frankford to client roster

Allscripts, a Chicago-based provider of clinical software andinformation systems, reported that Frankford Health Care System hasselected its electronic health record (EHR) and practice management(PM) products to automate and connect clinical and administrativeprocesses for 100 physicians.

PowerScribe achieves millennial placement

Speech recognition developer Nuance Communications reported that it hasmarked the 1,000th deployment of its Dictaphone PowerScribe applicationfor radiology.

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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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