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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Patient education materials get boost in readability from generative AI

Ideally, educational pamphlets for patients should be written at a sixth grade reading level, according to the American Medical Association.

Radiologist arrested for alleged lewd acts that were caught on camera

This isn't the doctor's first run in with the law. In 2019, he was arrested for his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, though those charges were eventually dropped.

Banner ASC in Sun City, Arizona.

Two years after the contrast shortage, how have supply preservation tactics fared?

During an initial three-month intervention period, one health system estimates that its saved nearly 750,000 mL of contrast. Now, experts from the organization are sharing whether those changes stuck after the shortage ended.

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Radiologist's remains found over a year after disappearance

The radiologist's car was discovered during a separate, unrelated search, according to the county sheriff's office.  

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Diagnostic mammograms not superior to screening for women with breast pain

A screen first approach for women who present with breast pain decreases healthcare spending without the risk of overlooking cancer, new analysis shows.

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Simple automated protocol halves radiology workstations' energy consumption

Although much of the energy consumed by imaging departments is unavoidable, experts propose that small, seemingly insignificant changes can be an effective means of reducing radiology’s carbon footprint. 

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What might reimbursements for proposed MRI safety CPT codes look like?

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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CMS to reimburse providers for use of AI prostate cancer mapping tool

Experts believe that these reimbursements will begin to gain steam as more organizations turn to AI to help address some of healthcare’s biggest pain points, such as staffing shortages. 

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GE HealthCare's flurpiridaz, the PET radiotracer that recently received FDA approval, offers several key benefits over SPECT. Jamshid Maddahi, MD, discussed the details in an exclusive interview. 

Ultrafast MCE could go on to become a go-to treatment option for obstructive coronary artery disease, according to the authors of a new first-in-human clinical study.

Elucid's PlaqueIQ was trained to turn CCTA images into interactive 3D reports that help physicians visualize the presence of atherosclerosis.

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