Practice Management: Page 615

RBMA: Matching accreditation programs to your facility
By Kate Madden Yee
The deadline is getting closer: Providers of advanced imaging services who bill for technical components must become accredited by January 1, 2012. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has designated three organizations as accrediting bodies. Which program is best for your facility?
September 27, 2010
KLAS: EMR sales nearly doubled in 2009
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The purchase of electronic medical record (EMR) systems by hospitals in Canada and the U.S. nearly doubled in 2009 from a dismal year in 2008, according to a newly published report from market research firm KLAS of Orem, UT.
September 26, 2010
Mayo: 2,100 more patients at risk of hep C
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Mayo Clinic said this week that it is contacting an additional 2,100 patients who may have contracted hepatitis C, allegedly from an interventional radiologic technologist who was stealing drugs within the facility.
September 23, 2010
InSight Health hit with 'going concern' warning
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider InSight Health Services said that its accounting firm has issued a statement expressing "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern.
September 23, 2010
Radisphere software links radiologists
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology services provider Radisphere National Radiology Group has launched software technology that links the firm's onsite staff radiologists to the company's radiology workflow system.
September 23, 2010
Study confirms model for predicting dysphagia after RT
By Cynthia E. Keen
Aggressive treatment using chemotherapy and radiation therapy (RT) is producing better curative and survival outcomes for individuals with head and neck cancers. But these treatments are like a double-edged sword, because the risk of developing acute and late toxicities, especially swallowing dysfunction, is high.
September 23, 2010
MRI can be used to follow great vessel stents
By Wayne Forrest
Using certain imaging sequences, MRI can be sufficient for the routine surveillance of certain great vessel stents commonly used to treat congenital heart defects in children and young adults, according to a study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
September 22, 2010
Medipattern awarded U.S. patent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer Medipattern has received a U.S. patent for the core technology behind its CAD products.
September 21, 2010
NTP uses LEU for Mo-99 production
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
NTP Radioisotopes of South Africa reportedly is perfecting the use of low-enriched uranium (LEU) at its Safari-1 nuclear reactor to produce the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).
September 20, 2010
ACR launches mammo education campaign
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched a campaign devoted to helping women determine when and how often they should receive mammograms.
September 20, 2010
Study finds low infection risk from US-guided intervention
By Erik L. Ridley
Patients receiving ultrasound-guided interventional procedures have a low risk of serious infection complications, according to research published in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
September 20, 2010
Minnies 2010 semifinal candidates
This is the list of the candidates for the 2010 edition of the Minnies, AuntMinnie.com's campaign to recognize the best and brightest in medical imaging.
September 19, 2010
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