Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

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Prioritizing mammogram reads based on breast density improves radiologist performance

Amid staffing shortages and rising imaging volumes, practices are seeking ways to increase efficiency, and Dutch scientists may have found a solution. 

The ASPR’s National Disaster Medical System field hospital set up in the parking lot at Mission Hospital in Asheville this past week to augment the hospital's emergency department and help decompress the pressure on the hospital in the epicenter of the Hurricane Helene disaster. Photo by ASPR

Asheville's Mission Hospital is in the center of Hurricane Helene disaster recovery

The hospital was prepared for Hurricane Helene and has maintained operations, despite being in the epicenter of destruction.

Helicopters rescue staff and patients from the roof of Ballad Health's Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee after a flash flood overtook the hospital with raging waters 5-8 feet high.Virginia State Police photo

Ballard Health hospital knocked out by flooding, patients evacuated via helicopter from Hurricane Helene

Ballard Health has several hospitals that were hard hit by flood waters, power, phone and internet outages—not to mention blocked roads. This is how they are coping. 

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Academic radiology faculty face salary gaps across nearly all ranks

The salary gap remains at about 6%, with male academic radiologists earning about $483,000 versus $455,000 for women, experts wrote in Radiology

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Company aiming to automate medical coding in radiology raises $47M

Across its customer base of physician groups, health systems and hospitals, Nym has processed over 6 million charts annually. 

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Only 12% of medical students stick with radiology from matriculation to graduation

Meanwhile, 52% of students stay with orthopedics from start to finish, placing it No. 1 ahead of neurosurgery (42%) and pediatrics (41%). 

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AI implementation improves when radiology staff concerns are considered

Although the potential benefits of artificial intelligence are numerous, its implementation is not without headaches for healthcare staffers. 

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Scientists devise automated, ‘big data’ approach to assess radiology residents’ report writing progress

Swiss researchers retrospectively analyzed nearly 250,000 reports from 53 residents logged over a five-year period, sharing the results in Radiology