Practice Management

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

Oregon Hospital Purchases Five Carestream Imaging Systems to Expedite Workflow, Enhance Image Quality

OCHESTER, NY—Asante Ashland Community Hospital (Ashland, Ore.) purchased a CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution (see video link), CARESTREAM DRX-Excel Plus, CARESTREAM DRX-Ascend System and CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System to expedite image access, enhance image quality and lower patient dose. The hospital also upgraded an existing portable system to DR with a CARESTREAM DRX-1 System. 

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Canon Medical launches Healthy Sonographer Program to reduce workplace injuries

Canon Medical Systems USA announced this week that it has launched a new program to help reduce injuries to sonographers.

UH Cleveland

Rethinking Image Sharing: Cleveland Trailblazers Link 20+ Hospitals and Provider Sites

Sponsored by Sectra

Cleveland is yet again blazing new ground in healthcare. This time, myriad health systems are actively collaborating to share images. A first for the U.S., we believe. University Hospitals Health System (UH) is leading the charge that now includes more than two dozen hospitals, providers sites and health systems and counting. Here’s how they did it.

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Follow-up imaging a smart choice after low-risk, moderate-risk breast lesions diagnosed as pure papilloma

When a low- or moderate-risk breast lesion is diagnosed as pure papilloma following ultrasound core biopsy, what’s the next step in managing that patient’s care?

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Project Pink provides cost-free mammograms to women in North Carolina

Project Pink, an initiative headed by North Carolina-based Charlotte Radiology and the Levine Cancer Institute, will provide free mammograms starting Monday, Oct. 8, to uninsured and underinsured women in North Carolina. 

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More than 10K people take to the streets for breast cancer awareness

More than 10,000 people marched on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Oct. 6 to help raise breast cancer awareness.

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Nanoplatform uses 3 imaging modalities to detect solid cancers

Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in Spain have developed a hybrid nanoplatform that simultaneously uses three different imaging modalities—MRI, CT and fluorescence optical imaging (OI)—to detect solid cancers. Their findings were published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.

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Meta-analysis confirms association between eating processed meat and a higher breast cancer risk

A higher consumption of processed meat—foods such as bacon, sausage and salami—is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of research published in the International Journal of Cancer.

Around the web

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.