Practice Management

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

MEDRAD earns Medbuy contract

Medbuy, a national group purchasing organization headquartered in Ontario, Canada has awarded MEDRAD, INC. a new three-year contract to provide vascular injector system syringes and related disposables used on vascular injection systems in CT, MR and CV i

Jeff Davis Hospital installs NovaPACS

Fifty-bed Jeff Davis Hospital in rural Hazlehurst, Ga., completed its installation of NovaPACS and NovaRIS interface by NovaRad Corporation.

DuPont Hospital for Children partners with Spacelabs Medical

The Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., has advanced its vision for a "connected hospital" through a new partnership with Spacelabs Medical, a global leader in patient monitoring systems.

St. Luke's Cancer Center offering Varian IGRT

St. Luke's Cancer Center in Bethlehem, Pa., is now offering cancer patients ultra-precise image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) treatments which use real-time imaging to accurately target tumors.

CoActiv Medical announces numerous installs

CoActiv Medical has inked a number of new contracts for installs of its software and systems for hospitals and imaging centers.

New Jersey hospital buys Eclipsys Sunrise systems

Eclipsys Corp. recently announced that Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, N.J. has purchased of the company's Sunrise RIS, Sunrise PACS, as well as the Sunrise Clinical Manager software and outsourcing services, the company said.

California Hospital orders slew of Kodak systems in move to digital

In its move to digital, Oak Valley Hospital in Oakdale, Calif. has selected Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group for PACS, an enterprise information management system, and CR.

Providence Health System inks 5-year contract with Elekta

Providence Health System has selected Elekta's radiation oncology and neurosurgical products for use at its 18 acute care facilities in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.

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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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