Practice Management

Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.

Synnex to resell Allscripts EHR

Synnex, a business process services company, has partnered with Allscripts to distribute Allscripts' MyWay EHR to authorized resellers via its Synnex Healthcare Solutions Division.

Pie Medical nets approval for phase-contrast angio MR software

Pie Medical Imaging has received FDA clearance for its cardiovascular angiography analysis system MR Flow.

Breast MRI detects 'unsuspected' cancers not seen on mammography

Nearly 20 percent of patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer had additional malignant tumors found only by MRI, according to a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Pressure to curb MRI restrictions in EU builds

European MRI manufacturers may get a permanent reprieve if the European Commission amends a directive that would restrict the use of MRIs in the European Union (EU).

Automated MRI measures may identify early Alzheimer's

Analyzing MRI studies of the brain with new software may help diagnose Alzheimer's disease as well as mild cognitive impairment, a lesser form of dementia that precedes the development of Alzheimer's by several years, according to a study published online May 21 in Brain.

Viztek unveils mammo PACS viewer

Viztek has introduced a mammography viewer that integrates with its Opal-Rad PACS, as well as any PACS supporting DICOM query/retreive, to display the results of mammography exams.

AIM: Shop for quality, not hospital volume, for better CABG outcomes

Maximizing adherence to quality measures is associated with improved mortality rates, independent of hospital or surgeon volume, for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), according to an observational cohort published May 19 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

InSite One gains new NDMA customers

InSite One has acquired National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) clients who have leveraged its technology for long-term image management in women's health to InSite One's InDex services.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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