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.

Imaging Dynamics nets DR sale

Imaging Dynamics Company has sold its Xplorer 1500 upright digital radiography system to Gulf Diagnostic Center (GDC), in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

March 3, 2005

Emageon inks with multi-site healthcare system

Emageon Inc. has been awarded a ten-year contact to provide enterprise healthcare information management to Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc., an integrated network of 12 hospitals, clinics and associated facilities located in Indiana and Illino

March 3, 2005

Siemens adds Soarian customer

Siemens Medical Solutions will implement its Soarian clinical and financial health information technology system at Lexington, Mass.-based Fresenius Medical Care North America, a dialysis and disease management company with 1,130 dialysis clinics and a nu

March 3, 2005

A4 nets Canopy installs

A4 Health Systems has signed contracts for the implementation of its Canopy Care Management system at three leading healthcare systems.

March 3, 2005

Siemens, Kindred sign CT deal

Siemens Medical Solutions announced today that Kindred Healthcare Inc. will install 12 Somatom Emotion Duo CT scanners in its network of long-term acute-care hospitals.

March 3, 2005

GE, Novation sign for injectable contrast media

GE Healthcare and Novation, the supply company of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), inked a single-source contract to provide VHA and UHC healthcare organizations access to GE's injectable x-ray, MRI, and ultrasound contrast media

March 3, 2005

TAMS 64-slice scanner sees Southern hospitality

The Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) in Louisiana is now home to two Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc.'s Aquilion 64 CFX multislice CT systems.

March 3, 2005

Networking Opportunities

Creating robust backbones, testing sites for wireless and negotiating bandwidth are jumping off points for building solid networks.

March 1, 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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