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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Cancer center launches mobile lung screening program for underserved areas of West Virginia

The WVU Cancer Institute is looking to provide low-dose CT lung cancer screenings for 42 West Virginia counties at no cost with a mobile imaging bus, WV News reported this week.

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NIH releases public dataset of 32K annotated CTs

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Clinical Center released a large-scale database of 32,000 annotated CT images last week in an effort to improve the detection accuracy of lesions, the NIH announced in a statement.

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Lightly embalmed cadavers a valuable teaching tool for interventional radiology

Lightly embalmed cadavers can help medical students and radiology residents simulate common ultrasound-guided interventional radiology (IR) procedures, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology.

What can radiology learn from the hotel industry? A lot, apparently

Brian King, global officer with Marriot International, has seen technology disrupt the hotel industry over the last quarter-century, he wrote in the Journal of the American College of Radiology—and he believes radiologists can learn a few lessons from the shift.

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The Journal of Nuclear Medicine’s impact factor increased 12% from 2016 to 2017

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) announced this week that the impact factor of its flagship publication, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM), increased by 12 percent in 2017.

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CT-related radiation linked to brain cancer in kids, young adults

Undergoing CT scans may increase the risk for brain cancer in children and young adults, according to a study of more than 150,000 pediatric patients in the Netherlands.

Radiologists ‘ill-equipped’ to spot physical abuse in elderly patients

Radiologists are poorly equipped to deal with cases of physical elder abuse, researchers wrote in a Journal of the American College of Radiology editorial this month—and that’s likely the product of weak communication and a paucity of research on the subject.

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Yale launches program to train first generation of IR physicians, techs in Tanzania

A Yale-led effort to implement a self-sustaining interventional radiology (IR) program in Tanzania will send dozens of physicians, nurses and technologists to the country each year to train radiology residents and lay the groundwork for a competency-based IR curriculum.