Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
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.
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.
Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site was significantly impacted by unprecedented rain and storm surge from Hurricane Helene hitting western North Carolina.
Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.
Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. has announced a milestone with more than 100 installations of its Aquilion 64-detector CT systems in healthcare institutions and imaging centers worldwide.
University Orthopaedic Clinic (UOC), a Atlanta-based sports medicine practice, has selected Neurostar Solutions to provide a Virtual Radiology Network (VRN) in an effort simplify imaging workflow required due to the pratice's rapidly growing patient base.
KOPP Development Inc. (KDI) has announcing that it has been awared a three-year preferred purchasing agreement with Mid-Atlantic Group Network of Shared Service Inc. (MAGNET), a group purchasing network based out of Mechanicsburg, Pa.
InnerWireless Inc. will be installing its broadband wireless distribution platform in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center Clinical Research Center (CRC) in Bethesda, Md.
GE Healthcare announced at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting May 13 - 17 in Orlando that the company has delivered its 500th Discovery PET/CT scanner.
There have been a number of recently reported installations of GE's LightSpeed VCT (volume computed tomography) scanner, including one recently in Alabama and one in Michigan.
Siemens has announced the first installation of its SOMATOM Sensation 40 computed tomography (CT) scanner within the radiology department of Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) located in Burlington, N.C.
Eclipsys Corporation has announced that Calgary Health Region's Rockyview General Hospital, Alberta, Canada, has activated its Sunrise Clinical Manager 3.5 XA advanced clinical software system.
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.