Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

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Technologist files class action lawsuit claiming imaging provider violated labor laws

Attorneys accuse Digirad of failing to pay minimum wages or overtime and shirking laws requiring regular meal and rest periods. 

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Medical imaging vendor Carestream laying off 200-plus employees, closing facility

The decision is due to reduced production volumes, the high cost of site infrastructure and opportunities to streamline shipping. 

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Radiology residents face an average of 46 interruptions during 1 night shift

“Protocol requests” are the most common type of disturbance, University of Iowa researchers detailed in JACR. 

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Imaging industry veterans with 55 years of experience launch teleradiology practice management organization

Yellowcross Healthcare is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, providing consulting services to medical groups and healthcare facilities in the U.S. 

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RadNet launching career training program to address technologist shortages

Dubbed “ImagingWorks,” the initiative is privately funded by the family trust of CEO Howard Berger, MD, and his wife, Karen. 

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RadNet: General radiologists achieve specialist-level performance interpreting mammograms with help from AI

The Los Angeles-based provider and its AI division, DeepHealth, recently assessed the skills of 18 physicians using their custom-built software. 

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Burnout’s pronounced prevalence among radiologists underlines ‘urgent, unmet need’ for intervention

Increased workload, poor sleep quality, suboptimal working conditions and reduced job satisfaction all correlate with increased levels of professional fatigue. 

Melissa Chen, MD, Clinical Neuroradiologist, Associate Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, said challenges ton radiology include the limitations of the relative value units (RVUs) used to pay radiologists, the need for balancing workloads despite disincentives to reading some studies, and the need to find new workflow efficiencies with AI to offset the radiologist shortage. #RSNA

Radiology at tipping point with limitations of RVUs and the growing shortage of radiologists

Melissa Chen, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, outlines some of the challenges practices are facing and possible solutions.

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GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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Outdated manuals pose MRI safety risks for patients with medical implants

After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

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What might reimbursements for proposed MRI safety CPT codes look like?

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

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