Practice Management

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

New video service wants to educate patients in waiting rooms about radiology

Radiology TV, a new subscription-based video service that launched this week, was designed specifically with hospital and imaging center waiting rooms in mind.

April 11, 2018
Quantitative imaging and lung cancer

Triple freeze cryoablation lowers complication rates, recurrence of pulmonary tumors

Applying a triple freeze approach to pulmonary cryoablation could safely treat malignant lung tumors with low recurrence and complication rates, New York physician Gray R. Lyons, MD, PhD, and colleagues have reported in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

April 10, 2018

Should breast cancer screening for women younger than 50 include DBT and mammography?

For patients under the age of 50, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in addition to digital mammography is associated with a decrease in recall rates, according to a new study published by the American Journal of Roentgenology. DBT was also associated with increased cancer detection rates in women from that same age group with dense breast tissue.

April 10, 2018

Radiologist shortage leaves New Zealand hospital searching overseas

Radiology staffing shortages are hitting Waikato Hospital in New Zealand. Its workforce problem led a department of health board executive to label the unit as “vulnerable” and has prompted the hospital to look for imaging specialist overseas, according to an April 5 article in Stuff.

April 6, 2018

Low muscle mass in nonmetastatic breast cancer patients associated with higher mortality rate

Sarcopenia, or low muscle mass, occurs in more than one-third of newly diagnosed nonmetastatic breast cancer patients and is associated with higher overall mortality, according to a new study in JAMA Oncology.

April 6, 2018

Utah women have some of the country’s lowest mammography screening rates

Utah is among the five lowest states in the U.S. for mammography screening rates, Brigham Young University’s newspaper, The Daily Universe, reported this week.

April 5, 2018

Imaging patients most commonly complain about quality of care, safety and communication

The most common patient complaints related to medical imaging deal with quality of care, patient safety and patient communication, according to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Most patients were satisfied with how their complaints were resolved.

April 5, 2018
Diversity

How a Stanford radiologist is tackling the field’s diversity problem

Stanford pediatric radiologist Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, believes radiology has a diversity problem and is spearheading a long-term approach within the university’s own department and across the entire field.

April 4, 2018