Practice Management

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

Two new EHR contracts for Allscripts

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has announced two new contracts to install its electronic health record (EHR) systems, one with Tennessee Oncology and another through Cincinnati Eye Institute.

Ergonomics & Organizing

I'm not much of a hypochondriac. But sometimes when a coworker complains of a sore throat and I listen to the coughing and nose-blowing going on in the next office, I think hard about whether my throat is feeling scratchy too. Maybe a little vitamin C wouldn't be a bad idea to ward off whatever germs are around.

Touring the Radiology Department of the Future

The radiology world is changing at near breakneck speed. New imaging technologies such as 64-slice CT and 3T MRI are taking the market by storm, driving new applications and improving imaging techniques. At the same time, modalities are combining to provi

Del Medical Imaging inks supply agreement with Novation

Del Medical Imaging Corporation, a manufacturer of general purpose radiographic imaging systems, announced this week it has signed two agreements with Novation, the supply company of VHA Inc. and the University HeatlhSystem Consortium (UHC). Del Medical h

DOD awards ONI contract for extremity MRI systems

The Defense Logistics Agency of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) has inked a supplier contract with ONI Medical Systems Inc., a leading provider of high-field (1.0 Tesla) open, dedicated extremity MRI systems.

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center installs Meditech CPOE software

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, the chronic care hospital of Hebrew SeniorLife located in Roslindale, Mass., this week announced the beginning of tests on a new computerized provider order entry (CPOE) software designed by Medical Information Technology Inc

Philips designed pediatric CT suite opens at children's hospital

Undergoing a computed tomography scan can be a scary experience for anyone, but it can be especially frightening for children. In light of this, Chicago Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital and Royal Philips Electronics this week announced the op

Bayhealth Medical Center picks McKesson for EMR

Bayhealth Medical Center, which serves central and southern Delaware, has begun a three-year initiative to deploy McKesson's Horizon Clinicals applications in an effort to establish an electronic medical record (EMR), McKesson said.

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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