Practice Management

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

Wearable MEG scanner allows patients to move freely during brain exams

A nontraditional magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanner is offering patients a wearable option that would allow them to stretch, drink tea or even play table tennis during a brain scan, according to research from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

March 27, 2018

How does not having a breast screening program affect a country’s radiologists?

There are large differences in the mammographic performance of radiologists from countries with breast cancer screening programs and countries without such programs, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology.

March 26, 2018

New research finds 1 in 3 women in rural India have never heard of breast cancer

Most women in rural India are unaware of how to examine themselves for breast cancer, and one in three have never heard of breast cancer at all, according to a dissertation delivered at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden.

March 23, 2018

Partnership brings mobile MRI to rural Montana patients

A long-standing agreement between three rural Montana hospitals—Monida Shared Imaging—recently added a second mobile MRI unit to bring state-of-the-art equipment to areas that would have been without, Kpax.com reports.

March 23, 2018
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Communication, clinical issues top patient complaints in image-guided interventions

A group of New England researchers analyzed patient narratives, finding clinical codes and communication breakdown as the most common reasons for complaints, with no significant difference between multifactorial and single-coded complaints.

March 22, 2018

2 ways urban radiologists can extend their reach to rural areas

Barely a tenth of U.S. physicians practice in rural locations, but up to 60 million patients live in those areas.

March 22, 2018

Image-guided immunotherapy could help treat advanced liver tumors

Early data suggest image-guided injections of immunotherapy could be used to treat advanced-stage liver tumors, according to a study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s annual meeting in Los Angeles.

March 22, 2018
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Will AI change healthcare jobs for the better or worse?

In what could be a surprise to experts and industry leaders, a recent survey from Accenture has suggested that consumers are more optimistic about the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, according to a recent article by Harvard Business Review.

March 22, 2018