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.
Overall quality, customer service, unexpected deficiencies—these are the principle concerns of medical providers when it comes to choosing an imaging vendor, according to a new market report from healthcare research firm KLAS.
Advanced practice providers—specifically nurse practitioners, physician assistants and radiologists assistants—are playing a bigger part in modern healthcare overall, and their impact on the practice of radiology in particular continues to grow. This high rate of growth for non-physicians’ roles within radiology merits additional scrutiny and evaluation, according to an article published online May 23 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology authored by C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, and his colleagues at Emory University School of Medicine.
While modern medicine continues to make vast strides through cutting-edge science and sophisticated technological innovation, sometimes a simple idea using already existing resources is all it takes to improve diagnostic strategies and improve patient outcomes. One of these simple ideas is helping radiologists at one prominent medical facility to more accurately identify retained surgical items in intraoperative radiographs, according to an article published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
A Johnson County, Kan., jury has cleared Alliance Radiology, the Kansas City area’s largest radiology practice, of violating state antitrust laws.
Very few radiology departments within academic medical institutions have dedicated Twitter accounts, and even fewer are active on the social networking site, according to results of a study presented May 17 at the 2015 American College of Radiology Annual Meeting. So how can more academic radiology departments realize the benefits of Twitter?
Robert E. O’Mara, MD, former chair of radiology and chief of nuclear medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), died at his home in Tucson, Ariz., on April 26, according to an announcement this week from URMC.
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.
