Practice Management

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

PocketHealth's latest agentic AI offering improves patient compliance, reduces administrative costs
Conductor is a platform of AI-enabled agents that can read clinical documents and orders, call patients and orchestrate appointments.
Novel CT power-save mode could cut per-scanner costs by $1.5M annually
Investigators with University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, recently explored the use of a “promising” new option that reduces energy consumption during brief, inter-examination idle intervals.
Practice rename's radiology suite after retiring long-time rad tech
The technologist received the news during her Oct. 31 retirement reception dedicated to her decades of contributions to the practice.
Fewer radiologists are interpreting breast imaging exams, with key workforce implications
From 2013 to 2022, the percentage of rads submitting breast care claims to Medicare dropped from about 47% down to 34%.
Rural hospitals band together to offer MRI services
Five Northern California critical access hospitals are banding together to share a mobile MRI unit across three counties.

Fast breast MRI protocol cuts scan times up to 80% while maintaining accuracy

"Shorter reading and scan times may allow implementation of MRI in national screening programs, making it available for all women," one expert says.

Radiology group says reporting backlogs climbing to 'worst on record'

The organization cautioned that continuing to outsource exams to teleradiology providers is becoming “financially unsustainable.”

Hospital system reportedly ends contract after private radiology practice declines employment arrangement

The contract dispute is between 50-physician Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg and Mary Washington Healthcare, which has two hospitals south of Washington, D.C.

overnight night shift attending radiologist burnout

Hunger, recent travel and occupational exhaustion significantly impact radiologists’ breast imaging reads

These findings signal the “urgent need” for interventions to address workload management, provide adequate resources and promote rad well-being.

Radiologists’ inpatient workload increases significantly despite dip in disease severity

“Substantial” growth in CT and MRI is replacing lower-cost modalities such as X-ray and ultrasound, experts write in JACR.

AI healthcare doctor surgery procedure artificial intelligence

First-of-its-kind framework monitors real-time performance of radiology AI tools

The program provides detailed assessments of how algorithms implemented into workflows are impacting efficiency and outcomes.

breast radiologist breast cancer mammography

Same-day breast biopsy program reduces patient wait times by 73%

A multidisciplinary team of breast radiologists, nurses, patient navigators, medical assistants and technologists worked to implement the program at Denver Health.

doctor comparing the costs of different medical treatments

AI assistance could cut screening-related costs by up to 30%

Integrating AI-based delegation tools into breast cancer screening settings could result in significant cost savings for organizations.

Practice Management

PocketHealth's latest agentic AI offering improves patient compliance, reduces administrative costs

Novel CT power-save mode could cut per-scanner costs by $1.5M annually

Practice rename's radiology suite after retiring long-time rad tech

Fewer radiologists are interpreting breast imaging exams, with key workforce implications

Rural hospitals band together to offer MRI services