Practice Management

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

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What Wikipedia gets wrong

A review of Wikipedia articles about the 10 most costly conditions in the U.S. revealed nine of them had information that differed from peer-reviewed literature on the same topic.

Radiology Business Management Association launches ShopRBMA

The association’s new online shopping experience allows members to purchase webinars, conferences, and other materials using one unified platform.

CMS deems NRDR a Qualified Clinical Data Registry

The American College of Radiology (ACR) National Radiology Data Registry (NRDR™) has been recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).

To hire or not to hire: Employing part-time radiologists brings benefits, drawbacks

Future discussions will hopefully lead to a shared consensus regarding the employment of part-time radiologists (PTRs), according to an article published online May 22 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

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Maximizing Dose Efficiency for Pediatric Patient Imaging

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Radiographic imaging of pediatric patients presents a number of unique challenges compared to the imaging of adults. Learn more.

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The top 100 cited radiology articles

Radiology reigns as the journal with the most frequently cited radiologic articles, according to a study of the top 100 cited articles in radiologic journals published online May 13 in Academic Radiology.

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Expanding RADPEER could better quality, safety in radiology

RADPEER, a product developed by the American College of Radiology (ACR) to better radiologists’ quality assessment and improvement through peer review, could be expanded and used to collect data on other aspects of quality and safety in radiology, according to a report published online May 16 by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Educational program may help residents’ case interpretation, consistency

Real View Radiology (RVR), an educational system founded on guided MRI case review, may help increase radiology residents’ case interpretation confidence and improve the consistency of search pattern use, according to a study published online May 10 by Academic Radiology.

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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