MedClean Technologies, which provides on-site technology for the treatment and disposal of medical waste and the destruction of confidential documents, says it has signed a distribution agreement with Sodzo Medical, Inc., a four state distributorship doing business as Texas Pain Reps based out of Houston, Texas.

Mounting labor and administrative costs, lack of capital for technology development, ongoing regulatory concerns, and changing compliance requirements have caused many physicians to outsource their medical billing and practice management operations in order to stabilize revenues and better predict cash flows.

Astellas Pharma US has launched the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging application for smartphones. The application is designed to give physicians access to published criteria used to assess the need for a patient to have cardiac radionuclide imaging (RNI).