Practice Management

Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.

Radiology nurse navigator helps streamline imaging for breast cancer patients
A new role at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is improving the diagnostic process for both patients and providers.
AI cuts hospital system's MRI wait times by more than 50%
The health network, which operates 37 hospitals in California, drastically reduced scheduling delays after integrating an FDA-cleared algorithm designed to speed up imaging acquisition times.
Hundreds of exams canceled as heat wave sidelines MRI scanners
High temperatures in the U.K. are putting pressure on an already strained healthcare system, with imaging equipment on the fritz due to overheating.
America's largest hospital systems still relying on CDs for image sharing
Despite the many technological advancements that have occurred in radiology, the specialty is still lagging when it comes to image and data sharing, according to new research.
Neuroimaging utilization in emergency departments has increased year-over-year for a decade
Researchers believe their new data could be used to better inform staffing coverage in modern radiology departments.

Walmart eyes imaging, primary care expansion with new health centers

It will initially focus on building locations in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, offering many of the same services as its existing clinics and future sites in Illinois

Experts pinpoint low-dose CT lung cancer screening fixes: ‘Radiologists must be creative and proactive’

LDCT has been a hot topic in the news lately, with U.S. lawmakers recently pushing for greater efforts to expand use of this lifesaving clinical tool.

4 tips to help maintain breast imaging services during local COVID flare-ups

Scientists with the Italian College of Breast Radiologists recently detailed their advice for keeping mammography safe during the pandemic in La Radiologia Medica.

VA clinicians order fewer inappropriate MRIs for lower back pain compared to most

That’s according to new research analyzing more than 1 million visits across over 900 VA primary care sites, published in JAMA Network Open.

Experts cast further doubts on COVID chest CT: ‘Not much of a diagnostic role for it’

Chinese researchers detailed these latest reservations in a new retrospective study, published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

'Huge improvement': Redesigned cochlear implant allows safe, comfortable MRI in children

The revamped device also required patients to receive less sedation or anesthesia for their exam, according to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital researchers.

Radiology department IDs costly errors outside of interventional complications with new system

Interventional mishaps led to more significant patient harm, but diagnostic and organizational miscues must be accounted for as well, Dutch researches explained in the European Journal of Radiology.

Feds greenlight Infervision’s deep learning tool for segmenting lung CT scans

Officials said the algorithm could act as a “robust lung nodule spell-checker” that reduces rad read times while maintaining accuracy.

Practice Management

Radiology nurse navigator helps streamline imaging for breast cancer patients

AI cuts hospital system's MRI wait times by more than 50%

Hundreds of exams canceled as heat wave sidelines MRI scanners

America's largest hospital systems still relying on CDs for image sharing

Neuroimaging utilization in emergency departments has increased year-over-year for a decade