Practice Management: Page 700

AMI to use ACR Image Metrix
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) has signed on with the American College of Radiology's (ACR) Image Metrix division to provide data and image infrastructure for a new study.
May 12, 2009
IMV: Imaging purchases still planned for 2009
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Despite a difficult first quarter of 2009, many U.S. hospital radiology administrators expect to see the strings untie on their capital equipment budgets enough to enable the acquisition of key diagnostic imaging equipment later this year, according to a new study of 250 U.S. hospitals by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division.
May 12, 2009
CMS reconsiders cervical cancer FDG-PET coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS) has opened a review of its coverage policies on FDG-PET for the staging of cervical cancer following the submission of a petition from several nuclear medicine physicians.
May 11, 2009
CMS rejects Medicare coverage for virtual colonoscopy
By Eric Barnes
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today rejected a proposal to pay for virtual colonoscopy for routine colon cancer screening of Medicare patients in the U.S., saying that VC, while promising for detecting colorectal polyps and cancer, is "not yet ready for widespread screening use."
May 11, 2009
HHS names HIT advisory committee members
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced the appointment of members to two new federal advisory committees: the Health Information Technology Policy Committee and the Health Information Technology Standards Committee.
May 11, 2009
AMI's PET/CT bone imaging trial enrolls patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) has enrolled the first 10 patients in a new clinical trial investigating the use of fluorine-18 sodium fluoride PET/CT to detect bony metastases.
May 11, 2009
iCRco taps Valentine as president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computed radiography vendor iCRco has tapped Mark Valentine as the company's new president.
May 10, 2009
RadNet posts good Q1 numbers
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Improved procedural volume at its imaging centers and new acquisitions powered RadNet to a double-digit gain in revenue in the first quarter.
May 10, 2009
VC not cost-effective in FOBT-positive screening population
By Eric Barnes
Patients with positive screening results on fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) should probably head straight to optical colonoscopy for their next exam, according to a new study from the Netherlands. Virtual colonoscopy may not be cost-effective in this population because so many FOBT-positive patients would need referral for polypectomy anyway, the researchers said.
May 7, 2009
SCCT publishes cardiac CTA guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New guidelines for the performance of coronary CT angiography (CTA) have been published online by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in the May/June 2009 issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
May 6, 2009
GE launches $6 billion 'healthymagination' healthcare initiative
By Wayne Forrest
Calling GE Healthcare one of "two pillars of growth" within General Electric, GE president and CEO Jeffrey Immelt today launched healthymagination, a six-year, $6 billion global initiative to boost the company's focus on improving the quality of healthcare.
May 6, 2009
CMS proposes 2010 inpatient payment rates
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule setting 2010 payment rates for hospital-provided inpatient services.
May 6, 2009
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