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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Top 10 trends to follow in diagnostic radiology

Consulting firm Vizient published its fifth annual imaging trends report, highlighting issues such as staffing, remote scanning, AI, sustainability and "systemness." 

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Male/female salary gap in academic medicine: Women radiologists ahead of peers in other specialties

Academic radiology still has a ways to go before achieving salary parity between the sexes, but it’s doing better at getting there than most other teaching specialties. 

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Newly created radiology residency program receives 750 applications for 7 slots

St. Luke's University Health Network recently launched its region's only accredited radiology residency program in response to booming demand for imaging. 

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National Labor Relations Board claims RadNet skirted order to rehire laid off union worker

The Los Angeles-based imaging center operator issued a statement disputing the ruling and highlighting plans to fight it in court. 

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Siemens Healthineers investing $314M to build new MRI manufacturing facility

This is the first major production site for the company's DryCool technology, which drastically reduces the amount of helium required for magnetic resonance imaging. 

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Radiologists should oppose the FTC’s noncompete ban, healthcare legal expert contends

Attorney Tom Greeson criticized the American College of Emergency Physicians for supporting the ban, believing it “weakens their membership,” and urged ACR and the RBMA to do the opposite. 
 

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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill granting due process rights to contracted radiologists

UPDATED: Currently, such rights—to a fair process before termination, restriction or reduction of professional activities—are not offered to all physicians. 

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Female radiology residents are 31 times more likely to experience discrimination than men

"Everyone in charge at our institution thinks the female residents are 'whiny.' We are told to keep our heads down and not cause problems."

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After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

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."

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