Practice Management

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

SIIM: Time to hop on the social media train

 ORLANDO, Fla.The social media train has left the station, according to Safwan S. Halabi, MD, of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Practices need to get onboard, he said. Otherwise, physicians and medical practices will be defined, perhaps negatively, by outsiders. During a June 7 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), Halabi urged attendees to understand and control social media.

Radiology: Decision support reins in CT pulmonary angiographic exams

Evidence-based decision support programs may be able to reduce the number of unnecessary CT pulmonary angiographic exams used to evaluate pulmonary emboli in the emergency department, according to a study published online Dec. 20 in Radiology.

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If Clinically Indicated, Clinically Correlate

Radiologists are clinicians consultants. We direct clinical management based on our expert interpretation of patient images. Yet, in many cases, radiology reports may not reflect our clinical expertise. Common problems include overuse of vague terminology and omission of the impression. Addressing these flaws can go a long way toward meeting clinicians needs and improving patient care.

Telestroke Networks Make a Mark

Two million neurons die per every minute that a stroke goes untreated, making rapid diagnosis and treatment crucial for the best outcomes. However, 45 percent of Americans live more than 60 minutes away from a primary stroke center. Enter telemedicine: telestroke networks have sprung up across the U.S., and are rapidly expanding, delivering revenue gains and improving patient outcomes.

Who's who? 100 names you need to know

See which healthcare facility clinicians, administrators and thoughtleaders Health Imaging & IT readers think you should know.

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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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