Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Such “scanxiety” can have a detrimental effect on exam quality, delay care and necessitate additional imaging, experts write in the Journal of Radiology Nursing.
"We've been telling patients that even if these injections don't relieve your pain, they're not going to hurt you," said study author Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD. "But now we suspect that this is not necessarily the case."
GE Healthcare is teaming up with Premier Inc. to create America’s first one-stop breast cancer diagnostic center, where women can receive their imaging results the same day as testing.
The aggressiveness with which some low-risk cancers are surveilled has more to do with the preferences of the patient than the state of the disease. Consequently, patients who want more scans and tests tend to raise their costs and risks of overtreatment without improving their outcomes.
Here are strategies that, taken together, give a radiology practice or department the ability to successfully triage, track and hire the best doctor for the job.
With radiologists increasingly compelled to compete on the basis of cost and quality metrics, the moves they make now to forge the strongest possible ties with their affiliate hospitals and healthcare systems could well determine their success or failure.
E-cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injury—“EVALI,” as the CDC is calling it—has already affected about 1,300 individuals across the U.S., killing 26.
A collection of researchers led by Penn Medicine are developing what they believe could be a game-changing new tool to detect Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases.