Practice Management

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

Imaging Advantage acquires BRIT Systems

Imaging Advantage, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based radiology services company, has acquired Dallas-based BRIT Systems.

MITA adds new staff to government relations team

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced that Andy Dhokai has joined the organization’s Government Relations department. The addition of Dhokai will help to strengthen the trade association’s expertise in health policy and legislative advocacy.

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What Admins Need to Know: A Recap of Hot Topics at AHRA 2014

Radiology administrators have a lot on their minds these days. 

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Social Media Marketing Tips from a Radiology Perspective

If you’re looking for pointers on how best to use social media for marketing your radiology practice, just go to your favorite search engine and key in the first three words of the headline above.

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Taking a Look Back

I suspect RSNA will feel a bit different this year. Normally, the tens of thousands of attendees heading to Chicago from all over the world are coming to learn about the future—the future of imaging technology, the latest scientific discoveries, evolving practice recommendations, and so on.

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Radiologists want honesty, anonymity from peer reviews

A recent survey at a large academic hospital in Canada found that staff radiologists want feedback from their peers—but they prefer it anonymously.

Straight talk: Patients want full radiology results from familiar faces

When it comes to receiving the results of radiological exams, a recent survey found the majority of patients prefer hearing from the ordering physician instead of the radiologist.

Mnemonic checklist cuts fluoro radiation exposure

Looking to ultimately reduce patient radiation, a team of researchers from University of Michigan Health System developed a mnemonic checklist that reduced mean fluoroscopy time in second year residents.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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