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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Cutting to the chase: How can radiologists best communicate test results?

Radiologists are often keen to avoid direct communication with primary providers, but referring clinicians actually prefer stronger connections, according to a study of 407 medical residents published in Academic Radiology.

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Academic ER coverage: Why fix what’s not broken?

When should radiology replace its resident-based overnight model with 24-hour attending coverage? Perhaps never.

Is the eye the window to the brain? How gadolinium is changing the field of cerebrovascular imaging

Gadolinium could be doing a lot more for cerebrovascular patients than previously thought. According to a group of researchers at the National Institutes for Health, the chemical agent could highlight not just abnormalities in routine brain MRIs, but identify the severity of incident stroke.

Allergic-like reactions to receiving injections of both ICM and GBCM are extremely rare

Allergic-like reactions to receiving both nonionic iodinated contrast medium (ICM) and gadolinium-based contrast medium (GBCM) are extremely rare, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. When such reactions did occur, they “presented as a mild acute reaction without significant clinical consequences.”

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Do false-positive stereotactic-guided breast biopsies impact future screening adherence?

False-positive stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsies (SVABs) do not negatively affect a patient’s future screening mammography adherence, according to a new study publishing by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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FDA debuts domestic system for radioisotope production

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved imaging technology that will enable the domestic production of radioisotope Technetium-99 (Tc-99m), FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, has announced. The new tech will be known as the RadioGenix System.

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Obstacle or death sentence? How women’s experiences shape views of breast cancer

A woman’s memories of breast cancer—whether they stem from a family member’s diagnosis or a close friend’s battle—could significantly shape that woman’s choices about her own preventive care, researchers reported in the Journal of Health Psychology.

3 Olympians pledge to donate brains to Concussion Legacy Foundation for research

Three U.S. Olympians—bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor and ice hockey players Angela Ruggiero and Hayley Wickenheiser—have pledged to donate their brains to the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) after their deaths to assist with important concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) research.

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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.

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

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