Practice Management

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

Circulation: MRI method could predict outcomes in a-fib patients

Researchers have found that advanced visualization with delayed-enhancement MRI holds promise for predicting treatment outcomes and measuring disease progression for patients with atrial fibrillation, according to study appearing in the April 7 issue of Circulation.

Corepoint new product suite focused on operations, metrics

Corepoint Health is launching a new product suite, Corepoint Decisions, which offers healthcare organizations a way to leverage the data flow between various applications into accessible operational insights for healthcare decision-makers.

New Mexico bill to regulate sonography, MRI professionals

New Mexico has passed a bill requiring those who perform sonography and MRI to hold state licensure, according to American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) President Linda Holden.

Medtronic urges CMS to cover MRI-safe pacemakers

Medtronic has requested that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revise national coverage determination for cardiac pacemakersto include coverage for devices that have been designed, tested and FDA labeled for use in the MRI environment.

Medrad to sell Confirma CADstream in EU

Confirma, the developer of CADstream computer-aided detection (CAD) software for MRI, and Medrad have signed an agreement that enables Medrad to sell CADstream in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.

MRI prioritization necessary to reduce Canadian wait times

While Canada might lag behind other countries in the number of diagnostic imaging devices, more machines are not the only solution to long wait times, according to a study conducted at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

Aspyra, Allscripts ink reseller agreement

Aspyra today entered a non-exclusive joint-promotional agreement with the Chicago-based Allscripts.

Health Affairs: California P4P stimulates changes in medical practice

A large group of California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality, according to a study published in the March/April issue in Health Affairs.

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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