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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Harvard pilots ‘IR-Peer,’ a new team-based learning system for interventional radiology

The HIPAA-compliant platform launched in April 2022, providing a forum for IR pros to discuss clinical complications and learn from one other. 

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Private equity-backed LucidHealth touts new 2-year partnership track for its growing teleradiology group

Since 2020, the “virtual practice” has grown to include more than 75 physicians operating across 47 states, with leaders seeking to hire more.

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Surging demand prompts school to resurrect long-dormant radiologic technologist program

Midland College discontinued its rad tech offerings more than a decade ago amid declining enrollment and increasing costs.  

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Private equity-backed US Radiology Specialists launches daytime teleradiology practice to recruit physicians seeking flexibility

Connexia aims to address growing demand for outpatient imaging, along with shifting desires from some radiologists, USRS said.

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Radiology the 3rd most sought-after specialty among healthcare employers

AMN Healthcare received 155 search requests for such specialists, behind only family medicine (279) and NPs (420), according to a recently released report.

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6 takeaways from the latest ACR/RBMA Workforce Survey

The survey received more than 1,700 responses, exploring topics such as practice ownership, part-time duties, and women's preference for working in academic settings. 

Higher pay in specialties such as diagnostic radiology correlates with lower levels of diversity

Full professors in imaging earned median compensation of about $500,320 between 2015-2022, researchers wrote in JAMA.

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High rates of regret among radiologists and other physicians who delayed having kids

“Residency requires too many hours at work, which makes parenting difficult” is the No. 1 reason doctors put off starting a family. 

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

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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