Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
ImageCare Radiology announced the decision Nov. 21, with the practice pulling out of Atlantic Health's Hackettstown and Newton Medical Centers effective the same day.
Ron Boucher, MD, chief of radiology at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Ore., and clinical professor of Oregon Health & Science University, spent nine months practicing radiology in a battlefield tent hospital only a mile from the front in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Fairfield, Va., Oct. 2, 2014 — The Radiology Business Management Association is proud to announce that it will offer a free broadcast of Extreme Radiology and the Interventions in Modern Warfare with Ron Boucher, MD — one of its most anticipated Fall Educational Conference presentations — via streaming media.
The pink month of October got off to a strong start with a big wave of breast–cancer-awareness activities breaking over the nation. With all of the conflicting opinions about screening mammography circulating in the medical community, the entire month of October provides a conspicuous opportunity for radiology practices to partner with other specialties, hospitals, payors and the community to heighten awareness around the importance of early breast-cancer detection.
TORONTO--(Business Wire)--MedCurrent Corporation, a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, today announced that Los Angeles Department of Health Services (LADHS), the 2nd largest municipal health system in the U.S., has chosen MedCurrent’s OrderRight™ Radiology Decision Support system to ensure appropriate ordering of advanced medical imaging.
The country with the sixth highest quality of life has an abysmal system for taking care of people drawing near to the end of their lives. That’s the bad news.
ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- National Decision Support Company (NDSC) continues to expand its customer base with more than 60 healthcare provider organizations adopting ACR Select for use within their electronic health record (EHR) order entry workflow.
The rise of online patient portals is presenting radiologists with a golden opportunity and a formidable challenge. The opportunity: beat back market forces pushing the specialty toward commoditization. The challenge: master a new reporting language that remains sufficiently scientific for referring doctors yet becomes broadly accessible to medical laypersons—also known as “patients.”
As the second annual Preventing Overdiagnosis conference gets underway at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, the Wall Street Journal suggests that it’s time to rethink early cancer detection.
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.
