Practice Management: Page 613

AuntMinnie.com Imaging Leaders Insider
By Kate Madden Yee
September 8, 2010
FDA updates warning labels on gadolinium contrast
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it is updating the warning labels required on three gadolinium-based MRI contrast agents sold in the U.S. due to the risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
September 8, 2010
Ga. mammo tech indicted; radiation risk and pregnant women
By Brian Casey
September 8, 2010
Technologist indicted over false mammo results
By Kate Madden Yee
A radiologic technologist at a Georgia hospital has been indicted on 20 charges of submitting false mammogram results by marking mammography studies as completed even though they hadn't been reviewed by a physician.
September 8, 2010
Study finds VC cost-effective if tiny polyps are ignored
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy is cost-effective for colorectal cancer screening, assuming that only patients with polyps 6 mm or larger are referred for polypectomy, a new French study has concluded. Removing the smallest lesions is not only prohibitively expensive, the yield in terms of additional cancer is minimal.
September 8, 2010
RadNet bids for NJ imaging centers
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider RadNet has signed a definitive agreement to acquire five imaging centers in northern New Jersey from Progressive Health. The firm will also take a 50% equity interest in a sixth center.
September 7, 2010
New Monte Carlo sources enable high-resolution simulations of RT
By Tami Freeman
Advanced radiation therapy (RT) modalities employ sophisticated dose calculation engines for treatment planning. As such, Monte Carlo simulations could prove invaluable for patient-specific treatment plan quality assurance of these complex beam delivery techniques.
September 7, 2010
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NextImage buys SelectMRI
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology services management company NextImage Medical has acquired SelectMRI from its previous owner, MSC Care Management.
September 6, 2010
McKesson inks Va. contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm McKesson has won a contract for its revenue management package with a Virginia-based independent radiology practice.
September 6, 2010
ASTRO restructures into 4 divisions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced that it has restructured itself into four divisions.
September 5, 2010
Mass. Medicaid losing money to overimaging
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Massachusetts Medicaid program MassHealth may be losing millions of dollars due to overuse of advanced imaging services, according to State Auditor Joe DeNucci.
September 5, 2010
Mayo says 3K patients at risk in hep C scandal
By Eric Barnes
The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, said that more than 3,200 patients may have been put at risk by an interventional radiologic technologist who has been fired. The employee has admitted to stealing drugs and contaminating needles used for injectable pain medications before administering drugs to patients, Mayo said.
September 2, 2010
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