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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Neuroimaging Draws a Bead on Alzheimer’s

The unassailable understanding that the best way to stop Alzheimer’s disease is to diagnose it early gives radiology a strategically pivotal role now that drug companies are balking over reseahing and developing treatments. 

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Beyond Scanning and Beaming: ‘Techs’ Are Well-Organized Advocates Too

Occupational deregulation may be advisable for some occupations, but if states decide to abolish licensure for radiologic technologists, patients may be put in serious potential danger.

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MSSP Is Changing. Should Radiologists Opt In?

Radiologists are often part of multispecialty groups that participate in a Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO. As a result, many radiologists are in these ACOs often without even realizing it.

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How environmental, socioeconomic factors impact missed radiology appointments

A team of Seattle radiologists collected environmental factor data on outpatient radiology visits, analyzing attendance along with daily weather reports and estimated median income from the U.S. Census American Community Survey.

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Spanish-language patient materials written above recommended reading levels

Numerous studies have found that imaging-related educational materials are written in a way that is too complex for some patients to understand. Does this same issue apply to Spanish-language educational materials?

Elucent Medical gains FDA clearance for new navigation system

Elucent Medical, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based healthcare technology company, announced that it has received FDA clearance for its EnVisio Surgical Navigation System.

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Is a radiotracer shortage causing scan delays for cancer patients?

Wait times for NHS England cancer patients is at a record high, and now experts believe a radiotracer supply issue is causing further delays.

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AAPM: Gonadal, fetal shielding during x-ray should be ‘discontinued’

Patient gonadal and fetal shielding during x-ray imaging is unnecessary and should be "discontinued" as routine practice, according to a new position statement from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.