Practice Management

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

NovaRad wins Southwest Iowa install

Clarinda Regional Health Center (CRHC) in Southwest Iowa has revamped its imaging services and deployed NovaRad Corp.'s NovaPACS.

SJRA selects Dynamic Imaging's PACS technology

Dynamic Imaging has rolled out its web-driven PACS at South Jersey Radiology Associates (SJRA), a radiology practice with eight multi-modality imaging centers.

Sutter Health selects Siemens Sienet PACS

California-based Sutter Health said today it has contracted with Siemens Medical Solutions to implement Siemens SIENET picture archiving and communications system in its five facilities in the Sacramento Sierra Region (SSR).

Central Baptist Hospital acquires 2nd magnetic navigation system

The Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Ky., will deploy its second Axiom Artis dFC magnetic navigation system developed by Siemens Medical Solutions and Stereotaxis Inc.

Scottish hospital selects Sectra radiology IT-system

Swedish IT and medical company, Sectra AB, has signed a seven-year contract with Dr. Gray's Hospital Elgin, Scotland, for an integrated radiology IT system comprising the company's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and radiology informatio

Voxar colonography software selected for large UK clinical trial

Voxar's CT colonography software, Voxar Colonscreen, has been chosen by the Special Interest Group in Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (SIGGAR1) for a clinical trial sponsored by the National Health Service (NHS) Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

Outrage equals change

What has a 45 percent defective rate? Costs twice as much in the U.S. as the next industrialized nation? And causes an estimated 98,000 deaths per year (that's more than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer and AIDS combined)?

Who's who? 100 names you need to know

See which healthcare facility clinicians, administrators and thoughtleaders Health Imaging & IT readers think you should know.

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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