Practice Management

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

Dynamic Imaging deploys PACS

Dynamic Imaging will be rolling out its IntegradWeb PACS at South Jersey's Atlantic Medical Imaging (AMI) and New York's St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center of Roslyn.

Intuitive Imaging Informatics upgrades site

Intuitive Imaging Informatics LLC of Los Angeles, Calif. said it is in the process of upgrading its systems and software installed at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center of Atlantic, N.J.

MDX signs first North American PACS customer

MDX Corp., a Thornhill, Ontario-based division of DXStorm.com Inc., inked its first U.S. contract with the Portland Neurovascular Center of Portland, Ore. to install its Insight PACS.

Magnetic Imaging Medical Group selects Neurostar

Neurostar Solutions of Atlanta, Ga., has been awarded a contract from Los Angeles, Calif.-based Magnetic Imaging Medical Group Inc. (MIMG) to enable digital workflow among MIMG's four locations.

GE installs 5,000th Lunar Prodigy bone densitometer

GE Healthcare has deployed its 500th Lunar Prodigy bone densitometer to William Sunshine, MD, a rheumatologist in Boca Raton, Fla.

TAMS foresees vascular imaging system installs to reach 100 by '05 end

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. (TAMS) projects it will have more than 100 worldwide installation sites of its Infinix-i series vascular and cardiac imaging system by the end of the year.

Misys adds EMR customers, launches program

Misys Healthcare Systems' has been awarded contracts from 25 U.S. healthcare facilities to automate clinical workflow and implement the company's electronic medical record technology.

Philips deploys heart technology at Indiana heart hospital

St. Francis Cardiac & Vascular Care Center, part of Indiana's St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, has awarded a multi-year contract to Philips Medical Systems to upgrade its cardiovascular services with Philips's newest offerings and technologies.

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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