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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Op-ed: EHRs, AI are making medicine, imaging impersonal—but physicians are to blame

In a recent editorial published in The New York Times Magazine, Abraham Verghese, MD, a professor of internal medicine at Stanford, explained that the popularity of electronic health records (EHRs) and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine may be overriding physicians' own clinical judgement more than helping to inform it.

How—and when—to manage cancer pain with interventional radiology

Interventional radiologists play a substantial role in treating cancer patients with painful bone metastases, but those physicians need to ensure they’re considering a host of factors in their formula for palliative care, Steven Yevich, MD, MPH, and co-authors reported in the Journal of Radiology Nursing this month.

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Thrombolysis with alteplase improves functional outcome in stroke patients with unknown time of onset

MRI-guided thrombolysis using intravenous alteplase could be the key to better functional outcomes in acute stroke patients whose time of onset is unknown, researchers wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine this week.

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50% of employees don’t always report safety events at academic radiology department

Patient safety is a foremost concern for radiology departments—but current measures of a safe culture often do not account for the human factors that contribute to the nonreporting of safety issues.

Novel tech IDs false-positives in lung cancer screenings

Technology out of Vanderbilt University and Mayo Clinic could be cutting false positive rates in CT-based lung cancer screenings, researchers announced in PLOS One this week.

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Melania Trump’s successful embolization treatment casts spotlight on interventional radiology

First lady Melania Trump underwent an image-guided embolization treatment for a benign kidney condition earlier this week, casting a sudden spotlight on the world of interventional radiology.

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5 alternatives to sedating children in the radiology suite

Younger patients are routinely sedated during radiologic studies, requiring some kind of restraint to avoid unclear imaging from anxious fiddling or unconscious movement, but when is sedation actually appropriate? How can clinicians avoid it?

Olympic skier pledges brain to concussion research

Kerrin Lee-Gartner, who won a gold medal in alpine skiing at the 1992 Olympics and currently works as a sports analyst, has announced she is pledging her brain to the Canadian Concussion Centre (CCC) for concussion research.