Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Consolidation of image interpretation assistance into one package can minimize costs and open the market to radiology providers who cannot afford current offerings, scientists write in Radiology.
IRs can play a key role in kidney care using a novel, nonsurgical approach that deploys catheters and imaging guidance to create a fistula in the arm for dialysis access.
Even before the onset of COVID-19, data suggested that rads’ after-hours workloads had doubled in proportion to the increase in emergency department visits in the years leading up to 2020.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As medical imaging progresses amid technological advancements and developing research, incremental innovation may add substantial value and growth to radiology practices.