Practice Management

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

Warning: Sidelined reactor could trigger medical isotope shortage
The impending shortage pertains to molybdenum-99, or Mo-99. A structural issue has occurred with a pipe within the high-flux reactor in Petten, Netherlands, which will require an immediate repair.
Malpractice watchers: Radiologists, imaging societies should bone up on the ‘science of visual perception’
In a more perfect world, legal cases against radiologists would solely focus on whether or not the defendant’s misdiagnosis reflected a true failure to uphold the standard of care.
ACR shares guidance for radiology providers facing IV supply shortages after hurricane
Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site was significantly impacted by unprecedented rain and storm surge from Hurricane Helene hitting western North Carolina.
Incidental finding characteristics that warrant communication
Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.
AI implementation improves when radiology staff concerns are considered
Although the potential benefits of artificial intelligence are numerous, its implementation is not without headaches for healthcare staffers.

NORTH Network selects Agfa for innovative teleradiology system

Agfa's HealthCare business group announced yesterday that NORTH Network has selected IMPAX PACS for its users throughout the province of Ontario, Canada.

July 7, 2005

Dictaphone announces numerous installs

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Group recently announced the signing of numerous new contracts for the company's speech recognition systems.

July 7, 2005

Gamma Medica to use Pinhole SPECT developed by John Hopkins

Gamma Medica Inc. recently announced that it has licensed a breakthrough pinhole image reconstruction method for SPECT which has been developed by Dr. Benjamin Tsui and Dr. Yuchuam Wang of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

June 30, 2005

Wyoming hospital gets quick ROI with NovaPACS

Boy film is expensive! Campbell County Memorial Hospital (CCMH), a 90-bed facility in Gillette, Wyo., has gotten a complete ROI from it's installation of NovaPACS by NovaRad Corporation in less than a year with the money not spent on film.

June 30, 2005

Beth Israel Deaconess installs second iCAD system

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) this week announced that it has purchased a second film-based Second Look system from iCAD Inc. which has been installed in its Brookline, Mass. imaging clinic.

June 30, 2005

HealthAlliance to install Siemens' Soarian

HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster, Mass. will install Siemens' Soarian clinical and financial health information technology (IT) system.

June 30, 2005

Imaging center in California installs Toshiba's Vantage

Toshiba America Medical Systems' Vantage, the company's ultra short-bore 1.5-tesla (1.5T) high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, has been installed at Health Scan Imaging in Murrieta, Calif.

June 16, 2005

New England Baptist Hospital places orders for Swissray ddR systems

Swissray International announced this week that they received orders for multiple direct digital Radiography (ddR) systems from New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

June 16, 2005

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Cardiovascular Business

Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business

FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

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.

Practice Management

Warning: Sidelined reactor could trigger medical isotope shortage

Malpractice watchers: Radiologists, imaging societies should bone up on the ‘science of visual perception’

ACR shares guidance for radiology providers facing IV supply shortages after hurricane

Incidental finding characteristics that warrant communication

AI implementation improves when radiology staff concerns are considered

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