Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
“Understanding how these national patterns manifest within radiology departments is critical for optimizing staffing, credentialing, and quality improvement initiatives,” authors of a new analysis in Academic Radiology contend.
Boston Medical Center has sought to have patients self-identify for lung cancer screening, administering multilingual surveys while they wait for imaging appointments.
As organizations turn to external services for help, it is becoming increasingly important for leaders to evaluate how this practice impacts patient care and the bottom line.
Lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose CT effectively reduces mortality among high-risk current and former smokers, yet patients face numerous challenges that can keep them from engaging with LCS.
It may be time for diagnostic radiologists to begin thinking differently. That is according to a viewpoint article published Jan. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which argued the specialty must act as gatekeepers to combat wasted imaging.
Patients are at a significantly higher risk of suicide in the first year after being diagnosed with cancer, according to a new study published in Cancer. What can healthcare providers do to help mitigate this risk?
Several radiologists at the Florida-based NCH Healthcare System have left their positions or given notice of leave, which may significantly impact patient care, the Naples Daily News reports.
New research has found that significant differences in radiation dose from CT scans is credited to how medical staff uses imaging scanners. However, setting more consistent dose standards through changes in CT protocols is possible, according to a study published online Jan. 2 in The BMJ.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee have found that a smartphone app may serve as an effective and valuable workplace-based education tool to help decrease the amount of incorrectly ordered scans, according to research published Jan. 2 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
A team at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson is working to create a 15-minute MRI to accommodate patients with conditions ill-suited for traditional imaging times, according to a recent UA news release.