Practice Management

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

McKesson automates workflow at Nashville hospital

McKesson Corp. is installing its digital information system Horizon Clinicals at Nashville General Hospital at Meharry (NGH) in order to fully integrate all hospital departments and clinical areas.

Eclipsys grabs Sunrise installs

Eclipsys Corp. is deploying its Sunrise Clinical Manager XA with Critical Care at Pennsylvania Hospital, one of University of Pennsylvania Health System's three teaching hospitals.

Imaging Dynamics signs OEM agreement in China, nets N.Y. installs

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has signed an OEM agreement with Beijing Wandong Medical Equipment Co. Ltd. (WDM) to incorporate the IDC Xplorer detector into its line of digital x-ray products.

Gamma's X-SPECT discovers Canada

Gamma Medica Inc. has grabbed its first Canadian installations for its X-SPECT system. The preclinical imaging system has been installed at the London Regional Cancer Program (LRCP), of London, Ontario and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Merge deploys Fusion at Radiologix's NE division

Radiologix Inc. has awarded a contract to Merge eFilm to help its Northeast operations integrate onto one RIS/PACS platform.

Misys' CPR module supports behavioral health services at NYCHHC

Misys Healthcare Systems will install Misys CPR, the cornerstone component of Misys Optimum, at New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. (HHC) to allow clinicians to document behavioral health services for inpatient, outpatient and emergency settings.

NovaRad wins PACS install

NovaRad has inked a three-year contract with Ferry County Memorial Hospital of Republic, Wash., for NovaPACS.

Agfa nets DOD DIN-PACS II contract for 2005

Agfa Healthcare has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for the DIN-PACS (Digital Imaging Network/Picture Archiving and Communications System) II contract.

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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