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.
Premier Inc. has awarded a three-year, multi-source contract to Agfa Healthcare for its entire line of Impax PACS hardware, software, professional services and service maintenance.
Methodist Hospital Division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia has implemented Siemens Medical Solutions' MedStage telemedicine platform for disease management and tele-ophthalmology.
The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) has named four vendors to install their respective PACS over the next three years as part of the NHS' $10 billion Care Record Service clinical information systems initiative.
Dynamic Imaging has installed its second-generation fully web-driven IntegradWeb PACS at Franklin Square Hospital Center, a 300-bed facility in Baltimore, Md.
SmartPACS has signed three six-year contracts to provide its SmartPACS picture archiving and communications system to Anna Jaques Hospital, Fallon Clinic and Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.
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.