Practice Management: Page 575

InSight Health emerges from Chapter 11
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider InSight Health Services and parent company InSight Health Services Holdings have come out of their Chapter 11 restructuring.
March 23, 2011
Adverse events reported in electronic brachytherapy patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
A form of intraoperative radiation therapy for breast cancer is making headlines this week following news reports of adverse events in patients treated with the technique. The reports indicate that tungsten particles were left behind in patients, and at least one lawsuit has been filed.
March 23, 2011
Radiation therapy wait times meet guidelines in Canada
By Rosemary Frei
A report released this week indicates that 98% of Canadians begin radiation therapy for cancer within four weeks after the patients are ready to receive the treatment, meeting nationally accepted standards. Meanwhile, wait times for imaging procedures varied greatly by province, although the report did not produce a national average.
March 22, 2011
Aramark buys Masterplan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical equipment management firm Aramark Healthcare has acquired clinical technology management and medical equipment maintenance firm Masterplan.
March 21, 2011
New attention for radiation protection drugs; managing radiologist-RT relationships
By Brian Casey
March 21, 2011
Better radiologist-RT relationships boost imaging center success
By Kate Madden Yee
At a busy breast imaging center, radiologists and radiologic technologists (RTs) work side by side, often with stressful workloads. It's crucial that they work together smoothly: If relations are rocky, the quality of patient care can suffer, and tension can lead to attrition.
March 21, 2011
SNM issues potassium iodide warning
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SNM is joining several medical associations to ask people not to purchase potassium iodide needlessly due to concerns about radiation fallout from nuclear power facilities in Japan.
March 20, 2011
Covidien pres/CEO Meelia to retire
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Richard Meelia, president and CEO of healthcare technology firm Covidien, will retire effective July 1, the company announced.
March 17, 2011
ECG helps screen for pediatric heart conditions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Adding an electrocardiogram (ECG) to a history and physical examination can identify undiagnosed heart conditions in healthy children and adolescents, according to a pilot study from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. An echocardiography study was also found to be useful.
March 17, 2011
The Profit Center: Part 19 -- How to shield against 'weaponized' RFPs
By Mark F. Weiss
In a quest to get more for less, more hospitals are using a "weaponized" form of the request for proposal (RFP), designed to get a group to grovel for the continuation of its contract, says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss.
March 16, 2011
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Cardiac imaging docs form imaging service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A number of cardiac imaging luminaries have teamed up to form the Transcontinental Cardiovascular Core Laboratory.
March 15, 2011
Triaging could halve MRI use for degenerative spine disorders
By Rosemary Frei
QUEBEC CITY - The number of MRI scans used to diagnose degenerative spine disorders could be cut in half if advanced practice physiotherapists triage patients before imaging is ordered, according to a presentation at the Canadian Spine Society annual meeting this week.
March 15, 2011
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