Practice Management

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

Delphi inks vital sign monitor licensing agreement

Delphi Medical Systems has inked a new worldwide licensing agreement for the manufacture and marketing of vital signs monitors that use cardiac technologies and products from Inovise Medical Inc.

IMTL deploys RIS/PACS

Multi-state diagnostic imaging center InMed Diagnostic Services has awarded Image Technology Laboratories Inc. (IMTL) a contract to provide paperless workflow, instant access to comprehensive clinical information, and enhanced diagnostic tools for radiolo

Lancaster General implements PeriOptimum and Radianse

Caregivers at Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital's Orthopedic Center are using Radianse active-RFID (radio frequency identification) location technology integrated with PeriOptimum's PathFinder to improve patient throughput and optimize capacity.

HealthTrust awards 3-year agreement to GE

HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) has awarded a contract to GE Healthcare to make its advanced imaging technologies available to the thousands of patients HPG serves.

Christiana Care Health picks InSiteOne for DICOM storage

InSiteOne Inc. will be implementing its on- and off-site secure DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) storage at Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., which serves the entire state and surrounding areas.

OVO Clinic installs Intelerad PACS

Intelerad Medical Systems has implemented its IntelePACS web-based PACS at OVO Clinic, a fertility clinic in Montreal, Canada.

Intuitive Imaging Informatics upgrades Regional Radiology

Intuitive Imaging Informatics LLC., of Los Angeles, Calif., is upgrading the PACS in use at Regional Radiology of Staten Island, N.Y.

GE, Yale ink perioperative agreement

GE Healthcare has announced agreement with Yale University to install its Centricity Perioperative Manager and Anesthesia products at facilities associated with Connecticut-based Yale New Have Hospital (YNHH).

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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