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.
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today approved a that lays out the long-term scientific vision for the NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest biomedical library.
With a heightened awareness of the potential retention issues with certain gadolinium-based contrast agents, patients who feel they’ve been harmed are seeking support groups and agent manufacturers are facing more questions, according to an article from investigative journalism site ProPublica.
Authorities investigating a kickback scheme involving a New Jersey radiology group have caught another physician in their dragnet, one that also happens to be mayor of a town sitting across the Hudson River from New York City.
As the practice of radiology becomes increasingly digitized and separated from the clinical environment, communication between radiologists and referring physicians remains an ever-critical aspect of providing timely and effective care to patients.
A recent episode of the Radiology podcast from RSNA focused on the growing concerns over gadolinium-based contrast media and the evidence showing some gadolinium may be unexpectedly retained in the body after a scan.
Toshiba’s new Assurance 360 program is making it easier for existing CT customers to lower radiation dose, improve their CT scanners’ performance and achieve compliance with the MITA Smart Dose standard, also known as XR-29. Assurance 360 not only updates a system to XR-29 compliant but takes patient safety a step further with dose reduction technology and the training and support needed to become dose efficient.
For the first time, healthcare networks can now remotely manage CT protocols and capture valuable analytics that could improve safety with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.’s CT Vitality software.
Digital access to radiology reports through an online patient portal integrated with an EHR is a high priority for most patients and a useful tool for physicians, according to results of a survey published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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.
