Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Early adoption of multiple practice affiliations signals this trend "will become the norm rather than an exception," experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Indiana University radiologist Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD, shared the story of an anonymous colleague's moral distress, hoping to humanize this issue.
The Los Angeles-based imaging center operator recently inked a partnership with a Florida OB-GYN group and plans to "aggressively" pursue similar opportunities.
The call to action comes from a poll of over 500 specialists at a single academic institution, published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
The company has already opened its first location in San Mateo, California, with another to follow in New York City, collecting over 1,000 datapoints from 30-plus exams.