Practice Management

Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.

RSS icon
Thumbnail

Interventional radiology’s pivotal role in addressing the ‘vicious cycle’ of pain and opioid abuse

The subspecialty is poised to help stem the tide of deaths and disability arising from this concern, experts wrote in AJR. 

Thumbnail

Common service costs $100K less when delivered by an interventional radiologist, underlining subspecialty’s value

Operating room and anesthesia use were the biggest drivers of this pay gap with surgeons, experts wrote in Radiology. 

Thumbnail

How a Texas radiology department dropped wait times for one procedure by 22%

UT Southwestern was able to vastly improve throughput for the placement of infusion ports while also increasing patient volumes. 

Thumbnail

Radiology can reduce CT lung cancer screening false positives by tackling these 2 factors

Harvard Medical School experts analyzed years of data to pinpoint reasons for mistakes in their own LCS program. 

Thumbnail

Pennsylvania radiologist, hospital must pay $10.8M over allergic reaction to gadolinium, jury rules

A Blair County jury deliberated for two and a half hours before reaching the unanimous decision. 

COVID-19 coronavirus

Death of healthcare worker with mysterious altered mental status highlights imaging’s COVID-19 role

Radiology experts recently detailed the case of a 50-year-old male admitted to an ED with unexplained CNS disfunction and cerebral edema. 

abdominal pain

Emergency abdominal CT scans decrease markedly during the pandemic, while prognoses worsen

The results, noted researchers with the universities of Toronto and Ottawa, could have important implications for future COVID-19 outbreaks.  

Call center

Imaging call hub bolsters bonds between radiologists, community PCPs, scoring 98% ED avoidance rate

Experts believe that imaging physicians who make themselves more available to primary care can help to mitigate malpractice risks while also building better ties with patients. 

Displaying 809 - 816 of 2000

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business
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.