Practice Management

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

Hospital in Norway installs Varian On-Board Imager, other systems

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.

Dynamic Imaging announces PACS installation

Good Samaritan Hospital has chosen Dynamic Imaging's Web-based IntegradWeb PACS for installation.

Emageon signs contracts with Meriter Hospital and BJC HealthCare

Emageon will provide its medical image visualization and workflow integration technologies at Meriter Hospital and BJC HealthCare in 2004.

GE Medical Systems signs $23 million contract in Mexico

The Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social has awarded GE Medical Systems (GEMS) a contract to install and service 80 new mammography systems.

Consorta taps TAMS for its CT scanners

Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS) will supply group purchasing organization (GPO) Consorta with its computed tomography (CT) scanners for the next 18 months.

Hologic signs exclusive pact with Clarian Health Partners

Hologic Inc. has signed an exclusive, three-year agreement with Clarian Health Partners Inc. for the purchase and sale of Hologic's Lorad line of analog and digital mammography products and stereotactic breast biopsy systems.

QuadraMed awarded EMR contract in Puerto Rico

Correctional Health Services Corporation (CHSC) of Puerto Rico has awarded QuadraMed Corp. a contract to implement a new electronic medical record (EMR) system.

Inova Health System chooses Philips Medical Systems

Philips has received a 10-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Inova Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare system in northern Virginia.

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Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

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.