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.
Haukeland University Hospital, a leading cancer clinic in Norway, has acquired an On-Board Imager device and other systems from Varian Medical Systems enabling its clinicians to carry out more targeted cancer treatments.
ANEXA Corp. announced last week that Tucson Orthopaedic Institute has chosen the company as its digital systems provider which will cover all of its facilities.
Eclipsys Corporation has announced that Calgary Health Region's Rockyview General Hospital, Alberta, Canada, has activated its Sunrise Clinical Manager 3.5 XA advanced clinical software system.
Praxisgemeinschaft in Kapuzinerkarree, a large private radiology institute in Aachen, Germany, has ordered Sectra's new digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography.
Medicalis Corp. has installed its web-based Percipio electronic decision support and order entry system at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, Mass., for radiology testing.
Stentor Inc. and Meditech have integrated Stentor's iSite PACS with Meditech's EMR at William Backus Hospital of Norwich, Conn., and St. Mary's Hospital of Grand Junction, Colo.
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.
