Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
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.
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.
Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site was significantly impacted by unprecedented rain and storm surge from Hurricane Helene hitting western North Carolina.
Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.
Heartlab Inc. has implemented its Encompass Cardiac Network at the Tampa Bay Heart Institute at Northside Hospital to manage cardiology images and information.
Siemens Medical Solutions has inked a $12 million provider agreement with DeKalb Medical Center at Hillandale, a new, state-of-the-art hospital with 100 private patient room that is scheduled to open in summer 2005.
Upon releasing its DryView 8900 laser imaging system with a new software upgrade in April, Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group said that numerous U.S. facilities have ordered the system.
U.K.-based healthcare IT provider ComMedica has signed a $64 million contract with Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) to supply its PACS imaging software to the National Health Service (NHS).
Fischer Imaging Corp. has installed three SenoScan digital mammography systems and two physician review workstations at the St. Vincent Breast Center in Indianapolis, Ind.
Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc. (SSFHS) has selected technology from McKesson Corp. to automate healthcare delivery in its seven emergency departments (EDs) that treat more than 325,000 patients annually.
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.