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.

Today's radiologist workforce will spend nearly $984M on certification
The figure includes about $208.5 million for initial board certification and another $775.3 million for maintaining the designation over a 35-year career.
ACR, American Hospital Association urge Congress to create path for foreign-born docs to relieve shortages
Hospitals and physicians are pressing lawmakers to pass two previously proposed pieces of legislation that allow international medical graduates to work here longer.
FDA clears Philips’ Radiology Operations Command Center for remote scanning
The Food and Drug Administration approval comes amid growing interest in remote-scan technology following the COVID pandemic.
Hospitals pilot policies to test older radiologists’ mental and physical fitness
About 5% of U.S. healthcare organizations have now implemented such competency testing, with about 13% of physicians deemed unfit for the job.
Radiology vendor Agfa to cut nearly $53M in costs as medical film business dwindles
Up to 530 positions in Mortsel, Belgium, could be affected by the reductions, including blue- and white-collar employees and management.

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.

August 4, 2015

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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business

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.

Staffing

Today's radiologist workforce will spend nearly $984M on certification

ACR, American Hospital Association urge Congress to create path for foreign-born docs to relieve shortages

FDA clears Philips’ Radiology Operations Command Center for remote scanning

Hospitals pilot policies to test older radiologists’ mental and physical fitness

Radiology vendor Agfa to cut nearly $53M in costs as medical film business dwindles

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