Practice Management

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

Dense Breast Day urges radiology business leaders to build cancer awareness

Cancer advocates and Yale Medicine are urging radiology business professionals to raise awareness about the dangers of breast density Wednesday, Sept. 25, as part of a one-day social media campaign. 

September 24, 2019

What NLST data tells us about Lung-RADS classifications

Subsolid pulmonary nodules classified as Lung Imaging Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS) categories 2 and 3 may have a higher risk of malignancy than previously believed, according to new findings published in Radiology.

September 23, 2019

A ‘nudge’ in the right direction can improve imaging-based cancer screening

Clinicians and patients can both be “nudged” in certain ways that improve decision-making related to imaging-based cancer screening, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

September 23, 2019
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How to fix a big problem with state-mandated breast density notifications

State-mandated breast density notifications (BDNs) are too complex for all patients to understand, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

September 19, 2019

Women find cone-beam breast CT more comfortable than mammography

Women say cone-beam breast CT (CBBCT) is more comfortable than digital mammography, according to new research published in the European Journal of Radiology. For some patient groups, however, this was not the case.

September 19, 2019

ASTRO 2019: How radiation after immunotherapy helps some NSCLC patients

Radiation boosts the immune system of patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after they stop responding to immunotherapy, according to findings presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

September 18, 2019

ACR acquires searchable database of CT colonography centers

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has acquired the My CT Colonography center online locator, an online tool originally developed by Bracco Diagnostics.

September 17, 2019

A key difference between synthetic mammography, FFDM

Measured mass sizes are considerably smaller on synthetic mammography (SM) images than full-field digital mammography (FFDM) images, according to new findings published in Academic Radiology.

September 17, 2019

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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