Practice Management

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

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8th-graders perform, teach clinically useful POCUS

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is so user-friendly that middle-school students can perform scans of acceptable clinical quality and then pass along their skills to classmates.

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Data Analytics: Are They Powering Your Decision-making?

Sponsored by Change Healthcare

Medical imaging is in a big battle with big data. There’s too much data in too many locations, and most often they are not well managed. Data are clearly imaging’s most abundant yet most underutilized strategic asset. 

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PET imaging technique detects brain inflammation after Lyme disease

Using an advanced PET imaging technique with a carbon-11-based radiotracer, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore found as association with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) and widespread brain inflammation. 

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Dual-energy head CT reduces radiation, maintains image quality for pediatric patients

Pediatric imaging centers switching from standard head CT protocols to dual-energy CT can expect such improvements as fewer artifacts, lower radiation doses, equivalent or slightly improved image noise and no significant difference in signal-to-noise ratio.

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Academic pediatric facilities deliver lowest CT radiation doses to young patients

Academic pediatric facilities expose pediatric patients to lower CT radiation doses than nonacademic pediatric facilities and all adult facilities, according to a new study published in Radiology.

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Elevated early tau more common in women than men on Alzheimer’s trajectory

Women are at a greater risk than men for early tau deposition, a marker of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease identifiable on PET imaging, according to a study published online in JAMA Neurology.

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How can radiologists help victims of intimate partner violence?

Victims of intimate partner violence undergo four times more imaging than non-victims, according to research published Feb. 5 in Radiology. What can radiologists do to help them?

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Trump ‘would have a hard time’ letting son play football due to concussion concerns

In a sit-down interview before Super Bowl LIII, President Trump called the NFL “dangerous” and said he would “have a hard time with” letting his 12-year-old son play football due to safety concerns.

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.