Practice Management: Page 582

SNM expands educational offerings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SNM is ramping up its 2011 annual meeting to offer new education options to nuclear medicine and molecular imaging professionals.
March 27, 2011
Utah passes RA licensure bill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed HB 238 into law, making Utah the 29th state to license, regulate, or recognize radiologist assistants (RAs) as members of the radiology healthcare team.
March 24, 2011
Colorectal screening up for most U.S. populations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Screening for colorectal cancer improved among white, black, and Asian-Americans ages 50 and older between 2000 and 2008, according to new data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
March 24, 2011
Law firms prepare for suit against W.Va. hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Attorneys took the first steps on Tuesday toward the filing of a lawsuit against a West Virginia hospital on behalf of patients who received excessive CT radiation doses at the facility.
March 23, 2011
InSight Health emerges from Chapter 11
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider InSight Health Services and parent company InSight Health Services Holdings have come out of their Chapter 11 restructuring.
March 23, 2011
Adverse events reported in electronic brachytherapy patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
A form of intraoperative radiation therapy for breast cancer is making headlines this week following news reports of adverse events in patients treated with the technique. The reports indicate that tungsten particles were left behind in patients, and at least one lawsuit has been filed.
March 23, 2011
Radiation therapy wait times meet guidelines in Canada
By Rosemary Frei
A report released this week indicates that 98% of Canadians begin radiation therapy for cancer within four weeks after the patients are ready to receive the treatment, meeting nationally accepted standards. Meanwhile, wait times for imaging procedures varied greatly by province, although the report did not produce a national average.
March 22, 2011
Aramark buys Masterplan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical equipment management firm Aramark Healthcare has acquired clinical technology management and medical equipment maintenance firm Masterplan.
March 21, 2011
New attention for radiation protection drugs; managing radiologist-RT relationships
By Brian Casey
March 21, 2011
Better radiologist-RT relationships boost imaging center success
By Kate Madden Yee
At a busy breast imaging center, radiologists and radiologic technologists (RTs) work side by side, often with stressful workloads. It's crucial that they work together smoothly: If relations are rocky, the quality of patient care can suffer, and tension can lead to attrition.
March 21, 2011
SNM issues potassium iodide warning
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SNM is joining several medical associations to ask people not to purchase potassium iodide needlessly due to concerns about radiation fallout from nuclear power facilities in Japan.
March 20, 2011
Covidien pres/CEO Meelia to retire
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Richard Meelia, president and CEO of healthcare technology firm Covidien, will retire effective July 1, the company announced.
March 17, 2011
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