Practice Management

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

Contracts for Bycast, NovaRad, Varian

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is expanding its Bycast StorageGRIDdeployment to provide a regional cardiac image library.VancouverCoastal Health is responsible for the delivery of $2 billion incommunity, hospital and residential care services to over 1 millionpeople.

Contracts for Commissure, EBM

Commissure recently commenced installation of its radiology speechreporting application RadWhere Suite at Flushing Hospital MedicalCenter in Queens, N.Y.

Contracts for Eclipsys, Kodak, Perceptive Software, NeuroLogica, Siemens

Eastman Kodak has recently signed contracts for its KODAK CARESTREAMRadiology and KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions atassorted U.S. healthcare facilities.

Contracts: Allscripts, Eckert & Ziegler, Elekta, MedLink, RADinfo Systems

Allscripts announced that Amarillo Diagnostic Clinic P.A. has selectedits HealthMatics Office, an integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR)and Practice Management System (PM).

Contracts for: Axolotl, GE, InterSystems, Sage

Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (gRrhio), inNew York, has selected Axolotl's e2 technology and professionalservices to facilitate a federated, patient-centric health informationexchange.

MDCT Changes the Rules

When 64-slice multidetector CT scanners rolled out almost three yearsago, no one could comprehend the changes they’d bring to radiology.It’s kind of like trying to explain parenthood to someone who’s neverhad a child.

Contracts for GE Healthcare, McKesson, MEDITECH, Orthocrat, Philips

GE Healthcare announced the first Canadian install of its new PET/CTtechnology at Saint John Regional Hospital, in Saint John, NewBrunswick.

Contracts for Aurora, CentarisOne, Misys, Varian

UMass Memorial Health Care announced that it will install the 1.5TDedicated Breast MRI System from Aurora Imaging Technology at itscenter in Worcester, Mass.

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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