Practice Management

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

Swedish hospital goes filmless and paperless with Sectra

Healthcare IT company Sectra has been awarded a $1.1 million contract from Sweden's Alingss Hospital to digitize its radiology services.

Heartlab installs Encompass at Tampa Bay Heart Institute

Heartlab Inc. has implemented its Encompass Cardiac Network at the Tampa Bay Heart Institute at Northside Hospital to manage cardiology images and information.

DeKalb Medical Center selects Siemens for imaging technologies

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.

Kodak installs multiple imagers

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.

ComMedica lands multi-million U.K. PACS deal

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).

Neurostar nets 200th install

PACS and teleradiology systems developer Neurostar Solutions has deployed its Virtual Radiology Network at Chatham Radiology Group.

Fischer deploys trio of digital mammo systems at Indiana breast clinic

Fischer Imaging Corp. has installed three SenoScan digital mammography systems and two physician review workstations at the St. Vincent Breast Center in Indianapolis, Ind.

McKesson installs Horizon at Sisters of St. Francis

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.

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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