Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Residents, nurses, technologists and transporters at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, believe planned downtime will cripple an "already incredibly overstretched hospital.”
“This study affirms that when interventional radiologists are afforded the time to evaluate and follow their patients, the complexity and value of the care they provide increases," one expert notes.
An imaging technique that can assess immune system recovery in macaque monkeys with an HIV-like infection could have similar future applications for evaluating recovery in humans after HIV treatment, the National Institutes of Health has announced.
Men, those with a comfortable social life and smokers trying to quit tobacco are among populations most likely to participate in lung cancer screening programs, according to a French report published in Clinical Lung Cancer this summer.
Researchers from the University of Newcastle in Australia found that radiographers and patients generally agree on in-person risk communication about medical imaging examinations with ionizing radiation, according to research published in the August issue of Radiography.
While burnout is a serious issue in all healthcare specialties, it has been found to be especially prevalent in radiology. Could the size of where radiologists work affect their chance of experiencing burnout?
James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Florida is one of the eight U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) institutions investigators have contacted as part of an audit to see if the VA processed radiology requests within a proper time frame and adequately managed canceled requests, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Updated radiotracers marketed for use in cancer diagnosis and targeted therapies could carry substantial health risks for premenopausal women that aren’t echoed in men, three New York physicians reported in a Radiology editorial this month.
Acupuncture treatments reduce joint pain in women with early-stage breast cancer, according to a new study published in JAMA, though its clinical importance remains unclear.
High-risk patients with negative findings at low-dose CT lung cancer screening are still at a high risk of developing lung cancer later in life, according to a new study published in Radiology. The authors added that screening should continue after more than three years.