Practice Management: Page 617

Siemens inks U.K. service pact
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has signed a multimillion-dollar, 15-year managed equipment service agreement with Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K.
August 23, 2010
GE Foundation awards grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The GE Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to Louisiana Public Health Institute in New Orleans as part of GE's Developing Health program.
August 23, 2010
ONC webinar to address EHR certification
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has scheduled a free webinar on August 25 to provide an overview of its temporary certification program for electronic health records (EHR) software.
August 23, 2010
MedQuist pays Kaiser $2M to settle lawsuit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Speech recognition and transcription technology provider MedQuist has paid $2 million to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to settle a lawsuit related to billing for medical transcription services.
August 23, 2010
AHRA, Toshiba sponsor patient safety program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems and the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) will provide six grants of as much as $7,500 each to hospitals and imaging centers to fund programs, training, or seminars designed to improve pediatric or adult patient care and safety.
August 22, 2010
DIIG grows revenues in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Diagnostic Imaging International (DIIG) reported a healthy increase in revenues and a reduced net loss for its second quarter.
August 22, 2010
Meaningful use: Comply and get paid ... but how?
By Kate Madden Yee
Nearly a month ago the U.S. government released the rules that physicians and hospitals must follow to adopt electronic medical records. But for many who are affected by them, how to put those rules into practice -- and therefore qualify for incentive payments -- remains clear as mud.
August 22, 2010
Web-based radiology incident system drives error reporting
By Cynthia E. Keen
An Internet-accessible radiology incident reporting registry, enabling medical professionals to anonymously submit "events" ranging from a minor PACS malfunction to a medical incident, is pioneering the use of an electronic national medical imaging incident reporting system in Australia and New Zealand.
August 19, 2010
Elsevier partners with ASRT on CT education
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical information publisher Elsevier has partnered with the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) to provide continuing education material.
August 18, 2010
The breast screening hullabaloo: Where are we today?
By Leonard Berlin, MD
The new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force mammography screening guidelines have sparked controversy, but what effects, exactly, have they wrought since their release? In this AuntMinnie Second Opinion, Leonard Berlin, MD, provides his view of the screening state of affairs.
August 18, 2010
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DatCard receives 4 patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Software developer DatCard Systems has been awarded four new U.S. patents for its computing systems that record DICOM medical images and other related data onto portable digital storage devices.
August 17, 2010
SHAPE II task force revising cardiac risk guidelines
By Eric Barnes
The Houston-based Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE), which wants to scrap population-based cardiac risk assessment in favor of imaging-based evaluation of each individual, said it will release new guidelines at the November American Heart Association meeting in Chicago.
August 16, 2010
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