Practice Management: Page 951

Free educational site summarizes normal variants in PET, PET/CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MIAMI BEACH, FL - Nuclear medicine specialists from Boston have laid the groundwork for a free, interactive Web-based PET/CT imaging atlas. They offered a preview of the atlas in an electronic exhibit at the American Roentgen Ray Society meeting this week.
May 6, 2004
Tragedy strikes after RT sickout in San Francisco
By Brian Casey
It's no secret that radiologic technologists in the U.S. are under tremendous stress. Ask many RTs about their job situation, and they'll say they're overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated.
May 6, 2004
Imaging in the Amazon
The Amazon is a beautiful but challenging environment, with temperatures reaching 36° C (96.8° F).
May 5, 2004
Radiologix Q1 shows growth
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider Radiologix reported fiscal 2004 first-quarter revenue of $69.5 million, a 10% increase compared with the $63.2 million posted in the first quarter a year ago.
May 5, 2004
MedQuest posts strong Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging center operator MedQuest of Alpharetta, GA, reported fiscal 2004 first-quarter revenue of $67 million, a 20.3% increase compared with the $55.7 million posted in the first quarter of 2003.
May 5, 2004
Alliance Imaging revenues edge up, but net income dips
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider Alliance Imaging reported first-quarter revenue of $105.6 million, up 2.8% compared with the $102.7 million posted in the same quarter of 2003.
May 5, 2004
Swedish Medical Center deploys mobile mammo center
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish Medical Center in Seattle has unveiled Swedish Breast Care Express, a mobile mammography center.
May 5, 2004
RTs stage 'sickout' to highlight problems, but gain many more
By Tracie L. Thompson
An effort by radiologic technologists in San Francisco to raise public awareness about understaffing and radiographic equipment failures at the city's only Level 1 trauma center may have achieved its goal -- but at a high cost to the RTs involved.
May 4, 2004
'Safety net' system stops patients from falling into follow-up black hole
By Shalmali Pal
MIAMI BEACH, FL - A radiology report might suggest further work-up of a patient, and the referring physician is notified of such, but that information never quite makes it to the patient -- leaving behind people who receive less than optimal care. Radiologists in the Ann Arbor VA Health System in Michigan have managed to successfully bridge that gap by creating a follow-up tracking mechanism.
May 4, 2004
Prowess inks deal with Georgia Tech
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation treatment-planning software developer Prowess of Chico, CA, has inked a deal with the Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta for the development of inverse brachytherapy planning technology.
May 3, 2004
Use of pediatric head CT growing steadily in emergency departments
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - The use of pediatric head CT for trauma evaluation increased steadily during the 1990s. By the end of the decade, CT was being used in nearly half of all head trauma evaluations, according to a new study based on the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey, presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.
May 3, 2004
Use of gold loses luster in UAE
By N. Shivapriya
The findings of a Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology report on the use of gold-colored gelatin microspheres in UAE suggest that there may be a link between complications of endometritis developed after the procedure and the use of gold in the embolization.
May 2, 2004
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