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.
Interventional device developer ev3 of Plymouth, Mass., reported thatit has been awarded three 3-year contracts by group purchasingorganization Novation.
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).
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.
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, 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.
Speech recognition developer Nuance Communications reported that it hasmarked the 1,000th deployment of its Dictaphone PowerScribe applicationfor radiology.
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.