Practice Management: Page 260

Higher maternal mortality found in Muslim-majority countries

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Muslim-majority countries have higher maternal, stillbirth, newborn, and child mortality rates compared with the global average and to non-Muslim-majority countries, according to research published on 30 January in Lancet.

January 30, 2018

What radiologists should know about 2018 MIPS changes

By Rebecca Farrington

What's going on with the latest changes to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)? Radiology practices face a host of new rules in 2018. Rebecca Farrington, chief revenue officer at Healthcare Administrative Partners, helps unpack the changes in this new article.

January 30, 2018

Probe into MRI-related death focuses on safety training

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

An investigation into the death of a man pulled into the bore of an MRI scanner in India has found that two hospital employees who were at the scene were not from the radiology department, and they weren't trained on proper MRI safety protocols.

January 29, 2018

Court rules that DTI-MRI scans are not 'junk science'

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A federal court has ruled that diffusion-tensor MRI (DTI-MRI) scans are not "junk science" and are admissible in court as evidence of traumatic brain injury.

January 29, 2018

Indian man carrying oxygen tank dies in MRI suite

By Wayne Forrest

A visit to see his mother-in-law in a state-run hospital in India turned tragic for an Indian man who was killed when an oxygen cylinder he was carrying pulled him into the bore of an MRI scanner.

January 28, 2018

Permira buys Australian radiology firm I-Med

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Global investment firm Permira will buy Australian radiology company I-Med Radiology Network, according to a story by Reuters.

January 28, 2018

ACEP adds radiologist to Choosing Wisely Champions team

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has chosen New Jersey radiologist Dr. Gregory Nicola to be a member of its Choosing Wisely Champions team.

January 25, 2018

Concordia Care buys Atlantic Imaging Group

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Healthcare benefits coordination firm Concordia Care has purchased Atlantic Imaging Group, a diagnostic testing network with facilities in 48 states.

January 25, 2018

Ohio doctors indicted for unnecessary imaging tests

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Two Ohio physicians have been indicted for performing unnecessary medical procedures -- including imaging tests -- to defraud insurers, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio.

January 25, 2018

Nuclear medicine techs have higher risk of cataracts

By Kate Madden Yee

Technologists who perform nuclear medicine exams, either diagnostic or therapeutic, have an increased risk of developing cataracts, according to a study published in the February issue of Radiology.

January 25, 2018

Intermountain to adopt NCCN appropriateness criteria

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) announced that Intermountain Healthcare plans to adopt the network's imaging appropriate use criteria (NCCN Imaging AUC) for lung cancer.

January 25, 2018

CMS delay of decision support creates opportunities

By Erik L. Ridley

Last year's decision by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay implementation of imaging clinical decision-support requirements until 2020 creates an opportunity to win over skeptical clinicians, according to a January 24 webinar from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.

January 24, 2018

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