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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Recruiting struggles force large hospital to enact a 'drastic reduction' in interventional services

The state’s fourth largest hospital will no longer provide around the clock IR coverage—something physicians at the facility fear will affect patient care. 

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Former head of radiology on trial for alleged rape

The victim believes that she was drugged by the doctor and his accomplice prior to the incident.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's digital dosimeter provides radiation dose reads in real-time.

New digital dosimeters give real-time radiation dose reads

Users can fine tune the device to provide dose reads at custom intervals or get on-demand stats by pushing a button on the dosimeter. 

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New hospital suspends all of its radiologists after audit uncovers numerous errors

Radiologists within the hospital's larger network will fill in while an investigation into the reported errors is conducted.

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Why practices might want to think twice before using ChatGPT to create patient education materials

"The potential for disseminating inaccurate information and the occurrence of 'hallucinations'—responses that are generated without grounding in factual data—are significant concerns,” authors of a new analysis warn.

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A swarm of healthcare orgs are turning to the cloud for their radiology needs

A new KLAS report highlights providers’ imaging needs related to the cloud, strategies for implementation, perceptions of imaging vendors’ cloud solutions, and more.

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Primary care docs lack trust in AI, making it unlikely they'll invest in applications, new survey says

Despite the opportunistic screening capabilities afforded by artificial intelligence applications, primary care providers are hesitant to embrace the technology.  

Comparison of a 2D digital mammogram and breast tomosynthesis 3D mammography from UCSF.

DBT exams take twice as long to read as 2D mammograms, but the learning curve is short

Although DBT exams are proven to identify more difficult to detect cancers, especially among women with dense breasts, they also include significantly more images than standard 2D mammograms. 

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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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