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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Experts recommend ending routine mammograms for some older breast cancer survivors

The new guidelines were compiled by dozens of stakeholders in several fields, led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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$100M mega mammography trial sees ‘record’ rebound following COVID slowdown

TMIST enrolled more participants than all other National Cancer Institute trials combined since July, the American College of Radiology reported. 

Cancer imaging rebounding, but disruptions expected to persist into 2022

Delays in scientific progress may be "incredibly difficult, if not impossible" to overcome, radiology experts wrote Friday in Radiology: Imaging Cancer. 

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Radiology practices’ COVID-related struggles go far deeper than just imaging volume declines

Case complexity also plummeted in several key categories during the pandemic peak, with implications for future budgeting and resource allocation, experts advised. 

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Completely eliminating shielding could exacerbate ‘radiophobia’ among patients, rad techs warn

While eliminating gonadal and fetal shielding makes sense, the specialty should not end all use of lead aprons, one imaging group warned. 

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ACR concerned new rule would set the stage for ‘highly controversial new national practice standards’

The American College of Radiology is worried the nation's largest integrated delivery system is drifting away from physician-led care teams. 

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A COVID silver lining: Pandemic-related workflow changes produce 23% drop in imaging wait times

The number of patients completing forms prior to visits has nearly doubled at NYU Langone, according to an analysis published in Academic Radiology. 

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Interventional radiology requires renewed safety focus amid medical error, malpractice vulnerabilities

That’s partly because of the subspecialty’s broad scope and rapidly evolving technology to support physicians, experts wrote in Radiology. 

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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

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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.

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GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.