Practice Management

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

Matrox technology driving Siemens medical displays at Karlsruhe pediatric clinic

Matrox Graphics Inc. announced that the German Karlsruhe pediatric clinic is using the Matrox MED3mp display controller board paired with Siemens medical displays, both donated for its Children's Oncology Ward.

St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center installs IBM TotalStorage

St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., has deployed IBM's TotalStorage infrastructure to provide access to more than two terabytes (TB) of current critical patient data, and to overall boost storage capacity and help the organization in it

RadNet chooses Dynamic Imaging's IntegradWeb for enterprise PACS

RadNet Management, Inc. will soon install Dynamic Imaging's IntegradWeb PACS in its 55 facilities across the state.

Wilkes Regional Medical Center selects DR Systems PACS

Wilkes Regional Medical Center in North Wilkesboro, N.C., has awarded a $1 million contract to DR Systems for an enterprise-wide implementation of the company's Dominator PACS.

NorthEast Medical Center to connect 150 physicians with Allscripts EHR

After success with the Allscripts e-Prescribing solution, NorthEast Medical Center is now installing Allscripts TouchWorks EHR to electronically connect their physicians across 33 locations.

eRad sees 50 in 2005, so far

eRad has announced it received in August its 50th customer order for calendar year 2005.

Kodak selected as main partner in Finnish e-health project

Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group has been selected as the main partner of the RATU e-health project in Northern Finland.

McKesson touts use of its web-based portal HorizonWP

McKesson says that more than 75,000 healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, office and IT administrative staff and others at as many as 500 healthcare organizations within the U.S., but also Canada, France and the Netherlands are using Hori

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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