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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Private-practice coalition adds another rad group

Florida-based Strategic Radiology announced the addition June 1, naming 11-radiologist Radiology Consultants of Lynchburg in Virginia as its 32nd member practice overall and its second in the Old Dominion state.

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Advanced MSK imaging trio—CT, MR, ultrasound—justified for certain trauma patients upon incident and over time

The comprehensive approach may be warranted for patients whose musculoskeletal injuries include fractures of the costal cartilage. 

NRC petitioned by patient advocacy group to require reporting of extravasation

The group is advocating for the NRC to treat significant extravasations in the same manner as any other reportable medical event. 

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‘You Only Look Once’ helps detect, classify lesions on deceptively normal screening mammograms

Researchers have combined three emerging technologies to detect and classify breast cancers found in follow-up imaging of women whose recent screening mammography was deemed normal.

Virtual conferences come at the expense of lost networking opportunities

A new survey sought to assess how professionals perceived the conversion from in-person to strictly virtual medical conferences during the height of COVID restrictions in the summer of 2020.

Radiologists best AI at diagnosing COVID on chest X-rays

AI can help humans inspect chest X-rays for COVID-19, but the technology is unfit to serve as a standalone diagnostic tool for that purpose. 

How will 18% population growth led by the aging show up in U.S. radiology utilization?

If demography is indeed destiny, U.S. healthcare is headed for a major escalation in spending on medical imaging over the next three decades. 

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How to prevent cherry picking on radiology worklists

One of the problems in radiology today is the selective cherry picking of the easier, more desirable cases from the DICOM worklists and leaving the more complicated studies for other radiologists, which is one of the factors in radiologist burnout.