Practice Management

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

New Jersey lab eyes low-cost breast screening for developing world

ClearView Diagnostics has hopes of bringing expanded breast screening to the developing world using low-cost ultrasound developed with the Dr. Susan Love Foundation and a grant from the NIH National Cancer Institute.

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33% of women skipping out on follow-up mammography

Nearly a third of post-breast cancer women are slipping through the cracks in our mammography system, according to a presentation at the 2016 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

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Closing in on Outcomes: Radiology Attempts to Close the Loop

Radiologists are getting serious about medical imaging outcomes in patients

Atlantic Medical Imaging breaks ground on new imaging center

Atlantic Medical Imaging (AMI) broke ground this week on its new imaging center on Black Horse Pike in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Press of Atlantic City reported.

Radiologist told to apologize after missing diagnosis in 2013

A radiologist in New Zealand has been told to apologize to a patient’s family for missing a lower back lesion back in 2013. The patient was properly diagnosed but died months later after a difficult recovery from spinal stabilization surgery.

Less painful mammograms could still be accurate

Breast cancer screenings can help save lives, but some detection methods are painful—mammograms squeeze the breast between two rigid plates. That might put some women off screening—and it might not even be necessary, according to a statement from Sweden’s Lund University. 

Take those rings off: Tom Brady stars in commercial for imaging center

Football star Tom Brady has been busy during his four-game suspension—vacationing in Italy, attending University of Michigan football games and filming a commercial at a Boston-area imaging center.

When providers follow CDS guidelines, the odds of an acute PE finding improve significantly

The influence of clinical decision support (CDS) systems in emergency departments (EDs) continues to grow, but what happens when physicians choose to override CDS recommendations? According to a recent study published in Radiology, the odds of an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) finding were much higher when providers followed CDS guidelines than when alerts were overridden. 

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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.