Practice Management

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

Video of Natalie Edgworth at Providence Health System explaining how AI is used to optimizing staffing schedules. #HIMSS

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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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Comparison of a 2D digital mammogram and breast tomosynthesis 3D mammography from UCSF.

Radiologist performance has improved since the introduction of DBT for breast cancer screening

Since being approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011, DBT has become the most common method for breast cancer screening, and as of September 2022, 84% of all U.S. mammography screening facilities housed DBT units. 

Brain imaging artificial intelligence is a primary area of concentration for AI because oif the critical nature of fast detection and treatment for patients. This is an example of the AI applications displayed by third-party advanced visualization vendor TeraRecon at RSNA 2022.

What is the ROI on AI adoption in radiology?

Radiology makes up the vast majority of FDA-cleared AI algorithms, but with minimal or no reimbursement, hospital administrators may ask whether AI’s value justifies its expense.

Radiologists exhorted to take charge of change (or learn to live with receding relevance)

The unfolding scenario is packing some serious threats to the livelihoods of the unprepared.   

Sentinelle, Calgary Scientific ink development deal

Sentinelle Medical, a manufacturer of breast MRI coils and software, and advanced visualization technology developer Calgary Scientific have entered a long-term strategic development agreement.

3D use allows lower dose for UAE

Utilization of 3D reconstructions from contrast-enhanced MRI as part of a uterine artery embolization (UAE) preprocedure enables clinicians to determine the best tube angle obliquity for fluoroscopic visualization of the origin of the uterine artery. This significantly reduces fluoroscopy time, radiation dose and contrast medium volume during that procedure, according to research published in this months issue of Radiology.

3T 3D delivers fast myocardial viability assessment

The use of a 3D inversion recovery gradient-recalled echo sequence at 3T MRI allows accurate assessment of myocardial infarction without loss of contrast-to-noise ratio compared with a standard 2D technique, according to research published this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.