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.

Kodak nets multiple RIS/PACS installs

Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group has been busy deploying its integrated RIS/PACS suite, which recently became available in the United States, and its Kodak DirectView PACS System 5.

February 10, 2005

DeJarnette wins migration contracts

DeJarnette Research Systems Inc. has been awarded two contracts for legacy PACS data migration.

February 10, 2005

U.S. military hospital in Germany taps ScanSoft

The U.S. Military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in the German State of Rheinland-Pfalz has awarded ScanSoft Inc. a contract for installation of its ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 8 software to allow its physicians to dictate direct

February 10, 2005

Stentor offers UChicago physicians better access to medical images

All facilities in the University of Chicago Hospitals integrated network will have enterprise-wide image access and always-online long-term storage. The organization will also integrate EPIC Systems' electronic medical recor

February 10, 2005

Philips, Georgia: matters of the heart

The Georgia Heart Center at The Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) and Philips Medical Systems have inked a five-year cardiac alliance that calls for the installation of new digital imaging technology to the MCCG facility.

February 10, 2005

Children's medical center selects MyPACS Enterprise

Children's Health System of Birmingham, Ala. will implement Vivalog Technologies' MyPACS Enterprise to create and manage a web-based digital teaching file library.

February 3, 2005

Agfa augments filmless operations at Belgium site

The Department of Medical Imaging of the general hospital AZ Sint-Maarten, with two radiology sites in Duffel and Mechelen, Belgium, are implementing Agfa Healthcare's IMPAX PACS to integrate medical imaging services at both its sites.

February 3, 2005

Cerner awarded multi-million dollar Millennium contract

Washington Regional Medical Center, a 233-bed, acute care medical center in Fayetteville, Ark., has selected Cerner Corp. to be its clinical information system provider.

February 3, 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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