Practice Management

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

Eclipsys Sunrise goes into community hospital

Eclipsys Corp. has announced that Community General Hospital in Syracuse, NY will deploy its Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager beginning in July.

Allscripts lands $3M deal for TouchWorks EHR

Electronic health record (EHR) vendor Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has been awarded a $3 million contract by the University Physicians Healthcare (UPH) for its TouchWorks EHR system.

NovaRad completes PACS installation, signs 6 new contracts

Union Hospital, a 160-bed facility located in Dover, Ohio, has implemented NovaRad Corp.'s NovaPACS and is on track to becoming 100 percent filmless.

TAMS deploys 64-slice scanner at Dallas-based ER

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. is implementing its Aquilion 64-slice CT scanner at the Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas.

Siemens inks contract for MRI, ultrasound with HealthTrust

Siemens Medical Solutions has inked a 3-year contract to provide magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound technologies to HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG), of Brentwood, Tenn.

GE speeds up diagnoses at UW Medical Center

GE Healthcare has installed its Lightspeed VCT 64-slice scanner at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Wash.

MinXray wins U.S. Army order

The U.S. Army has selected the MinXray MXRSLW portable x-ray system package as their new standard for field deployable and battlefield portable diagnostic radiography.

Philips deploys 100th Achieva 3.0T MRI scanner

The University of Michigan's Department of Radiology has installed Philips Medical Systems' Achieva 3.0T compact whole-body magnetic resonance system for advanced clinical applications and research projects including neurological applications such as func

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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