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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Technologist in England fired, removed from official register for drinking on the job

After making mistakes under the influence of alcohol, a technologist at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, has been fired and had her name removed from the country’s official register.

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Zimbabwe opens 1st imaging center in country where radiologists are ‘an endangered species’

Zimbabwe’s first-ever radiology center has opened in the country’s capital, Harare, local outlet Bulawayo 24 News reported this week.

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Cardiac hybrid imaging can help specialists predict heart attacks

Cardiac hybrid imaging with single photon emission tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is an effective predictor of adverse cardiac events, according to a new study published in Radiology.

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This common food could become a popular contrast agent

Researchers have determined that barley could be used as a contrast agent in photoacoustic imaging, sharing their findings in a new study for Biomaterials.

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Is it time to redefine ‘overdiagnosis’?

As overdiagnosis is increasingly recognized in the realm of cancer care, the term itself might benefit from a simpler, standardized definition, a group of researchers argue in an Annals of Internal Medicine editorial published this June.

Surprising number of childhood cancer survivors not concerned about their future health

Many adult survivors of childhood cancer are not concerned about their future health or developing new cancers, according to a new study published in Cancer.

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150-pound dinosaur skull gets CT scan for upcoming museum exhibition

It’s not every day that imaging equipment is used to scan a 68-million-year-old dinosaur skull, but that’s exactly what happened at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Good practice governance: 5 stumbling blocks and how to scale them

Presenting five ways to establish, implement and monitor policies for divvying up duties, doling out rewards and sharing decision-making.

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.