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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‘High levels’ of unfamiliarity with the Family and Medical Leave Act among US radiology practices

Group practice leaders making hiring decisions may benefit from learning more about the FMLA and adopting such policies, experts advised. 

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Radiologist is the highest paying job in these 4 states

Those include the nation’s most populace state, which employs 1,700 members of the specialty earning $339,140 annually. 

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American College of Radiology, AMA partner to fight nonphysician scope creep

ACR recently highlighted the collaboration, labeling scope of practice as “one of the leading issues that are addressed by state legislatures.” 

‘Learning analytics’ provides more comprehensive means to assess novice radiologists’ skills

Traditional approaches don’t allow for the collection of structured data to gauge progress, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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Eyeing overutilization, health system schools fledgling internists in Imaging Wisely

Following the intervention, learners demonstrated improved and sustained knowledge about high-value image ordering, experts wrote in JACR

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US Radiology Specialists expanding its pipeline for attracting and retaining technologists

Private equity-backed USRS plans to extend the reach of its Technologist Advancement Academy across all 180 of its imaging centers.  

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State abortion restrictions do not appear to impact radiology residency applications

Radiologists have expressed concern that the Supreme Court’s controversial decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would exacerbate physician shortages.  

‘It was killing some of these radiology departments’: State grapples with long licensing delays

Some rad techs have waited upward of four months to receive their credentials, with it taking days prior to COVID.

Around the web

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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