Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
With the growing demand for virtual care and an increasingly mobile population, the need to improve communication with non-English-speaking patients is immense.
“With this signal about the public’s preference for notification, the question for health systems and policymakers is not whether to notify patients but when and how.”
In patients with suspected stroke, contrast allergies present a significant dilemma, as contrast-enhanced imaging is often used to guide treatment decisions.
Last May, three female students in an ultrasound technologist program sued Valencia College in Orlando, Fla., alleging two professors pressured them to undergo vaginal exams to learn a procedure from the patient’s eye view. A federal judge has now thrown out the suit.
“Stop taking away my Constitutional rights you facist [sic] insurance companies. I want my MRI!” A sign spotted in a protest march? No—a tweet documented in a medical study.
The newly renovated pediatric imaging suite at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia held its official ribbon cutting ceremony, and a young patient got to do the honors.
If pediatric patients are to understand imaging exams as positive experiences—or at least minimally negative ones—radiologists and their departmental team members need to see things from a kid’s eye view.
If you were planning a new MRI facility, how long would you budget for the installation? One would assume more than a week. However, that kind of speedy installation is what one Pennsylvania company says it can offer.
Due to improvements in both technology and the quality of patient care, there are currently more images being used in the healthcare industry than ever before.
Today, imaging has truly gone enterprise-wide, with medical centers needing to optimize their processes and technology to accommodate images from cardiology, pathology, dermatology and more.
Inefficiency is kryptonite to healthcare. In an era where providers are being asked to do more with less, wasteful workflows and inefficient resource usage sap the ability to offer the highest levels of patient care.
CCTA is being utilized more and more for the diagnosis and management of suspected coronary artery disease. An international group of specialists shared their perspective on this ongoing trend.
Richard Heller III, MD, RSNA board member and senior VP of policy at Radiology Partners, offers an overview of policies in Congress that are directly impacting imaging.
