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.

IAC Research Award Program 2016 Call for Proposals

The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Research Committee seeks to support innovative and meritorious research relevant to accreditation and quality improvement through its annual IAC Research Award Program.

FUJIFILM Supports American College of Radiology Education Center With Educational Course and Training Services

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Education Center will continue to offer comprehensive, interactive radiology education courses utilizing FUJIFILM Medical Systems medical imaging solution: Synapse® PACS. A total of eight different courses comprising 30 sessions are held annually, including Body MR, MSK MR, Cardiac MR, Neuroradiology, HRCT and Emergency Imaging utilizing the Synapse PACS system software.

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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.

“Before these CPT codes there was no real acknowledgment of the additional burden borne by the providers who accepted these patients."

The new images were captured at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography. One specialist called them "Google Earth for the human heart." 

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