Practice Management

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

Report: Not a lot of progress for EHR adoption

More than three years after President George W. Bush called for all Americans to have EHRs by 2014, a new California HealthCare Foundation report suggests that there has been no measurable increase in health IT adoption.

MRI highly sensitive in detecting breast cancer

MR imaging of the breast has high sensitivity and lower specificity forthe detection of breast cancer in patients with breast lesions,according to a study published in the January issue of Radiology.

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Boston Scientific has announced another significant M&A deal, scooping up an Israeli medtech company focused on RDN technology. 

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

The recall comes after approximately 3% of patients treated with the device during the early stages of its U.S. rollout experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack following surgery. The expected stroke rate is closer to 1%, the FDA explained.