Practice Management

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

FDA approves minimally invasive, cheaper option for prostate surgery

Men who suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia have a new treatment option, University of California, San Diego researchers announced this July—and it’s one that involves minimal operative pain, fewer out-of-pocket dollars and no hospital stay.

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56% of NCI-recommended cancer websites lack adequate info about PSA screening

National Cancer Institute-designated websites publish lower-quality information about prostate cancer screenings than sites run by major allied organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Prostate Cancer Foundation, according to a report published this month in Practical Radiation Oncology.

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Risk standardization finds 1 in 3 emergency physicians utilizing CT imaging belong to different performance decile

Machine learning-based risk standardization can impact variation in CT use and emergency physician profiling. Additionally, it may accurately assess physician imaging performance and improve emergency care value, according to research published July 5 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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New Zealand authorities ‘mortified’ after radiology employee misplaces patient info for 26 women

A confidential medical file containing the names, hometowns and histories of 26 breast cancer patients was misplaced in a south New Zealand town this week, the Otago Daily Times has reported.

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Technologist in England fired, removed from official register for drinking on the job

After making mistakes under the influence of alcohol, a technologist at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, has been fired and had her name removed from the country’s official register.

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Zimbabwe opens 1st imaging center in country where radiologists are ‘an endangered species’

Zimbabwe’s first-ever radiology center has opened in the country’s capital, Harare, local outlet Bulawayo 24 News reported this week.

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Radiology employee loses file with data of 26 patients

An employee from Pacific Radiology’s Dunedin Hospital in New Zealand lost a physical paper file that held personal information of 26 breast cancer patients, according to an Otago Daily Times report.

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Researchers ask: Which interventional radiology procedures involve highest radiation exposure?

Researchers set out to determine the dosimetry levels of commonly performed interventional radiology procedures and compared those doses to commonly accepted reference levels in a July 3 Journal of the American College of Radiology study.