Practice Management

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

NYU Medical Center picks Fuji for film and imaging

FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA this week announced that the NYU Medical Center has finalized a deal the company for an exclusive five-year film and imager contract which is valued at over $2 million.

INTEGRIS Health inks $4.5 Million document management contract with Relizon

The Relizon Company, a North American supplier of business process solutions for document management, billing and relationship marketing, this week announced that it has been awarded a five-year $4.5 million dollar contract by INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma's

Eclipsys systems installed at Georgia hospital

Eclipsys Corp. has announced that the DeKalb Medical Center at Hillandale, a newly opened completely digital hospital in Georgia, is using Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager and Knowledge-Based Charting advanced clinical information systems for its move to

Physicians in New York target prostate cancer with Varian system

Clinicians at Community Care Physicians of Latham, New York, is using combined technologies in a single machine from Varian Medical Systems to give patients image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) treatment for prostate cancer that is able to precisely locate tu

Provena Health makes move to digital operations via McKesson systems

Provena Health, a six-hospital Catholic health system based in Mokena, Ill., plans to install McKesson's Horizon Radiology, an integrated RIS/PACS, with the aim of reducing film costs and to make medical images and information available electronically.

Dictaphone sees big success with iChart

Dictaphone has announced that its iChart Managed Services program has done quite well in the first half of this year.

Toshiba, Columbus Children's Hospital develop new Cardiac bi-plane flat panel system

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc., in conjunction with Columbus Children's Hospital, has announced the Infinix cardiac bi-plane (CB-i) flat-panel diagnostic imaging x-ray system, the first of its kind to be installed worldwide, according to Toshiba.

San Francisco's Chinese Hospital picks Kodak for digital workflow

Chinese Hospital of San Francisco -- an independent, community-owned 54-bed facility that serves the Chinese population living in Chinatown and the greater San Francisco Bay area -- recently announced the decision to convert from film-based x-ray products

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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