Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Radiologist Anna Rozenshtein, MD, and colleagues conducted a literature review for their opinion piece, published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Eliminating reimbursement gaps may reduce the healthcare and outcome disparities experienced by these underserved groups, ACR-affiliated researchers reported.
A new study suggests coronary CT angiography (CTA), in addition to standard care in patients with stable chest pain, lowers death rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial (MI) infarction at five years, compared to standard care alone.
Researchers are able to examine patient-specific characteristics and improve the the predictive ability of lung cancer screening while still maintaining the sensitivity of low-dose CT similar to the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Radiologists can rignificant reduce radiation dose by using patient-specific body weight-based protocols during whole-body 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT without compromising image quality, according to new research published in Academic Radiology.
Mammography screening is down among younger women since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its breast cancer screening guidelines in November 2009, according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery. This includes women with a history of breast cancer.
Many radiologists are functioning well by most standards but are nowhere near their potential level of fulfillment. So how can we reach our highest potential by applying positive psychology?
Canberra Hospital in Canberra, Australia, was forced to outsource all inpatient CT exams to an external provider for a full week due to “an unplanned leave” within the radiology department
There’s nothing wrong with strategically courting attention. Besides, marketing is a means of informing—and that’s an activity that provides real value to patients and referrers.
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.
