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.

How radiology should prepare for AUC clinical decision support reporting requirements. CMS to require AUC CDS January 1, 2023.

Another ‘record’ Match Day, with strong interest in diagnostic and interventional radiology

A total of 42,952 applicants certified a rank-order list in 2023, marking the largest match in the National Resident Matching Program's 70-year history.

March 17, 2023
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Radiologists lobby for state bill that would ease tax burden of docs who treat certain patients

“Many private practice physicians and providers that I know are operating on smaller and smaller margins due to cuts in reimbursements," said radiologist Andrew Kayes, MD.

March 17, 2023
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Medtronic, Edwards among the healthcare organizations chosen as World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2023

The annual list, now in its 17th year, was designed to celebrate companies that make ethical business practices a high priority. 

March 16, 2023

A 5-point to-do list for radiology leaders to begin addressing burnout

Such work-related stress has become “rampant” among radiologists working in the U.S., two noted experts wrote recently. 

March 13, 2023

Lawmakers reintroduce radiologist-supported bill to soften the blow of residency debt

The REDI Act would allow physicians-in-training to qualify for interest-free deferment of their student loans while serving in a medical internship or residency program.

March 10, 2023
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Working off-hours maxes odds of burnout in private-practice radiology

Meanwhile, about 27% of those surveyed said they feel professionally fulfilled, with exercise and healthy eating having an influence. 

March 9, 2023
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), a related organization of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), this week released a statement on the criminalization of medical errors. The APSF said criminal prosecution is unjust and counterproductive is healthcare organizations want to find ways to mitigate errors by understanding how they happen and create protocols or IT systems can can help prevent future errors. The criminal trial of nurse RaDonda Vaught was counterproductive to safety.

Radiologists’ happiness outside of work has plummeted since the pandemic

Burnout may be one factor, as physicians put in extra hours to deliver care delayed during the pandemic, according to new survey data.  

March 9, 2023

Radiology is matching its first class of Gen Z residents this year. What to know

Physician members of this generation will come with unique nuances of which the imaging workforce should be aware. 

March 9, 2023

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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