Practice Management

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

Gamma Medica installs pre-clinical imaging system for cancer research

Gamma Medica Inc. last week completed installation of its X-SPECT pre-clinical imaging system at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for cancer research.

Greenville Hospital System installs ibex's PulseCheck

ibex Healthdata Systems will deploy its emergency department information system at four Greenville (SC) Hospital System facilities.

US Oncology installs VitalWorks' RadConnect RIS

US Oncology has selected VitalWorks Inc. as a provider of radiology information systems (RIS) and has implemented RadConnect RIS at their Texas Oncology P.A. location in Dallas.

Amerinet adds more Fuji products to its buy list

Group purchasing organization (GPO) Amerinet Inc. has added Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc.'s Synapse PACS to its existing computed radiography (CR) and film contract with Fuji.

DR Systems signs $10 million in business in three months

Over the last 90 days, DR Systems Inc. has inked some $10 million in new contracts with regional medical centers and community hospitals throughout the United States.

Philips Medical Systems installs first 40-slice CT at Indiana University Hospital

The facility, which is part of Clarion Health Partners, has installed Philips Brilliance 40-slice CT system. This is the first global, clinical installation for the system.

Trends to Watch

We all know someone who has made great success from a good idea. But good ideas are a lot more complicated than selling cold lemonade on a hot day. They are all about identifying trends - and jumping on - just a little before the rest of the world catches on and constantly modifying the game plan to stay sharp.

PACS Administrator Salary Survey

Who is the typical PACS administrator? And how well is he or she compensated? Read the results of our survey of PACS professionals around the United States and how they fare.

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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