Practice Management

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

GE to install first Ohio valley enterprise-wide PACS

Upper Valley Medical Center (UVMC), a non-profit 139-bed community hospital in Troy, Ohio, has purchased GE Healthcare's (GEHC) Centricity Enterprise PACS for its main facility and four outpatient sites.

Hudson Valley Hospital Center invests in advanced breast cancer detection

Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., recently purchased a Second Look 300 mammography CAD system from iCAD Inc.

Priorities that Make a Difference

This month we're proud to announce the winners of our third annual "Top 10 Connected Healthcare Facilities." As you'll see on page 22, we're distinguishing 10 facilities that stand out among the rest in connecting images and information across the enterprise (which, not coincidentally, is the mission of our magazine).

Defining Cardiology's Clinical Dashboard

Cardiology image and information systems share the ability to manage patient images and data - but vendor to vendor, capabilities differ.

Top 10 Connected Healthcare Facilities

Taking the lead in healthcare IT is all about executing on a vision to create seamless connectivity of all imaging and patient information systems to enable comprehensive, well-organized patient data to flow to the caregiver, whenever it is needed. That's

Facility acquires new GE, all-digital technology to detect, diagnose and treat heart disease

Memorial Regional Medical Center, a member of Bon Secours Richmond Health System, is the first U.S. hospital to install GE Healthcare's versatile new cardiovascular and interventional imaging system that gives doctors enhanced capabilities in the diagnosi

A group of Italian hospitals pick Sectra PACS

MultiMedica Holding S.p.A., which operates several hospitals in the Milan area in northern Italy, plans to install a Sectra PACS for handling and archiving radiology images.

Imaging Centers in Illinois install eRAD PACS

High Tech Medical Imaging of Barrington, Ill., has installed eRAD PACS at its four locations.

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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