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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Breast radiologists’ opinions diverge on how to structure resident education, rotations

Imaging experts said they were "surprised" at the lack of consensus regarding how to manage first rotations during a 12-week program.

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CT technologist organizes protest against hospital’s vaccine, testing requirements

John Matland says he and others are prepared to lose their jobs over the issue and did not change his stance after the FDA gave full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.

Hospital system launches nation’s first fully mobile low-dose CT lung cancer screening program

West Virginia University Medicine hopes its new LDCT pilot can serve as the model for a nationwide mobile screening rollout. 

Radiologists’ share of catheter-directed therapy market falls as surgeons, cardiologists gain inroads

Physicians have also increasingly performed this deep-vein thrombosis treatment on an outpatient basis, a decade's worth of Medicare claims data show. 

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Retired radiologist pushes for change after navigating healthcare as a patient with cancer

Frank Giargiana Jr., MD, was forced to step out of the reading room and face his diagnosis from a new perspective, sharing his journey in Radiology: Imaging Cancer.

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For every positive COVID-19 test, radiologists record 1.2 fewer outpatient imaging exams

Northwell Health experts believe their findings offer key clues as practices navigate subsequent stages of the public health crisis. 

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Radiologist-delivered ablation for lung cancer costs significantly less than surgery, but utilization still low

Average payment for the first year of therapy landed at $11,975 for imaging-guided percutaneous ablation, nearly half of surgery's tally, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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Radiology navigators may save millions from malpractice lawsuits by closing gaps in follow-up care

Duke University Medical Center scheduled additional exams for 60% of incidental findings, and many were later diagnosed as serious problems.