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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Radiology has made diversity strides over the past decade relative to other specialties

While the numbers remain low, researchers believe they represent progress, especially when compared to other areas of medicine. 

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AI takes on hospital staffing to help battle burnout

Specialists with Providence Health System developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to help make staffing schedules more flexible and predict patient volumes.

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Medical specialists order low value, unnecessary imaging at higher rates than their peers

The findings are derived from an analysis of fee-for-service Medicare data recorded across nearly 600 U.S. health systems. 

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FTC sues private equity firm, claims it’s trying to build a monopoly in radiology

Welsh Carson created US Anesthesia Partners to consolidate the market in Texas and then attempted to do the same in imaging and EM, authorities allege. 

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Controversial reporting requirement—opposed by Rad Partners, Rayus, ACR and RBMA—set to take effect

“These requirements add a significant amount of additional time, resource, and administrative costs," the 4 groups said. 

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Large study finds widespread variability in timeliness of follow-up services after an abnormal screening mammogram

The findings, derived from ACR's National Mammography Database, offer important clues as leaders seek to improve biopsy rates after screenings. 

The most common reasons for imaging contrast agent-related malpractice lawsuits

Experts offered three takeaways from their query of legal claims databases, sharing their findings in Radiology

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Running a CT scanner at Munich’s Oktoberfest: What providers learned

Imaging experts deployed the machine at the world’s largest annual fair in 2022, recently sharing their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine.