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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American College of Radiology initiative seeks to improve transparency among AI vendors

The ACR Data Science Institute’s “AI Central” allows physicians to select algorithms that have been vetted for performance. 

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Image-guided treatment may restore sense of smell in long-COVID patients

“Other treatments have failed to date. This injection is working,” said lead author Adam Zoga, MD, MBA, a professor of radiology at Jefferson Health.  

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5 guiding principles for establishing a point-of-care ultrasound program

Collaboration between various support personnel and buy-in from all stakeholders are crucial to program success, experts wrote in JACR

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Should diagnostic and interventional radiologists practice separately? Imaging groups to discuss at town hall

IR's evolution as a primary specialty, coupled with an "explosion" in diagnostic exams, have contributed to friction between the two professions. 

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Radiology services much harder to come by if you’re Black or Latino and living in the US

Relative to other hospitals, those serving racial and ethnic minorities had significantly lower odds of offering 7 of 12 diagnostic radiology exams, new research shows.

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Fairfax Radiology adds 2 new locations, 15 physicians in M&A deal

Acquiring the Association of Alexandria Radiologists will pave the way for expansion and allow the practice to provide a single standard of care for Inova Health.

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Music therapy a cheap, safe method for reducing patient anxiety during radiology procedures

Researchers administered a 40-question anxiety inventory to measure individuals’ levels of unease during thyroid biopsies, experts detailed in Academic Radiology

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Radiologists grab much smaller share than cardiologists of burgeoning interventional market

Endovascular procedure volumes surged 427% among cardiologists between 2010-2018, compared to a 125% uptick among radiologists. 

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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. 

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

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