Health Imaging

JULY 11, 2024

New survey data suggest less than 20% of women with uterine fibroids are offered additional treatment options besides a hysterectomy.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The startup, which offers cloud-based software that integrates disparate elements of a rad's workflow, also named a new CEO.

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IT Medical Radiology 105

Radiology Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Fort Collins, Colorado-based company has purchased all shares of Laitek Inc., a major provider of medical imaging data migration and routing services in the U.S.

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IT Imaging Medical Imaging Radiology 110

Atlantis Worldwide

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In recent years, the advent of Mobile MRI machines has significantly influenced healthcare in the U.S. An increasing number of healthcare providers are opting to acquire Mobile MRI machines

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Meanwhile, MRI and CT volumes both increased nearly 10% in Q3 when compared to the same period in 2023, the Los Angeles-based company reported.

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IT MRI Imaging 109

Radiology Business

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Thera4Care aims to strengthen the adoption of radiology-based diagnostics and therapies, bringing together 29 stakeholders from across the care continuum.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Diagnostic 105

Radiology Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The University of Rochester Medical Center operates two major imaging sites that handle most outpatient CT requests, completing an average of nearly 3,300 exams each month.

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Hospital IT Medical Imaging 119

Ben White

JANUARY 26, 2024

Last week, Radiology Partners released an announcement that it was “commencing a comprehensive set of financing transactions to strengthen its financial position.” ” Setting the Stage Going into 2024, RP was already cashflow negative (i.e. losing money) to say nothing of the massive debt payments due this year and next.

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Radiology Radiologist IT Hospital 321

Ben White

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It was inevitable. (To To wit, Envision emerged from bankruptcy in the hands of its creditors, but it didn’t go anywhere.) I reached out to RP and Melinda Collins, AVP of Marketing and Communications, on Twitter/X without a response. If you’re at RP and want to weigh in on this purported practice, please reach out.

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Radiology Radiologist IT Teleradiology 306

Ben White

MAY 9, 2023

It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: these are my opinions, formed from the combination of my biases, my experience as a radiologist since beginning residency 10 years ago, and my many conversations with radiologists across the country. You don’t have to agree with me. Imaging volumes are increasing between 3 to 5% per year.

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Radiologist PACS Image Interpretation Radiology 331

Ben White

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A little over a year ago, I found Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals to be one of the most excerpt-able books I’d read in a while. But Keynes was wrong. No matter how much you do, you can’t do it all–so stop being so dramatic. I tried to align my daily actions with my goals, and my goals with my core values.

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IT 278

Ben White

MARCH 4, 2024

They don’t even have e-prescribe! You get the idea.) Instead, they’d rather anger thousands of doctors by bullying them into switching to a product that literally can’t do many of the things their current offering does while pressuring them in the sleaziest ways possible. Luminello is flawed, but it works worked.

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Private Practice Communication IT Healthcare 290

Ben White

JULY 3, 2023

A few years ago, nearly every radiologist completed a fellowship. It wasn’t so long ago that the job market was so tight there was a real concern that doing two back-to-back fellowships was going to become the norm. Oh, how times have changed. Covera Health) are also looking for it. Especially for ED coverage and general radiology.

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine Radiologist Image Interpretation 262

Ben White

JULY 26, 2023

But I also know that students and residents–because they keep asking–are wondering: Given ChatGPT and other recent seemingly rapid advances in AI, is radiology still a viable career choice? Yes, I think it is still viable. Let’s open with two quotes. It might be 10 years, but we’ve got plenty of radiologists already.”

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Radiology Radiologist X-ray IT 243

Ben White

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Being referred (like signing up through that link) will earn you a $10 bonus after you answer your first two microsurveys. M3 now has three separate very active research companies under its umbrella: M3 Global Research , M-Panels , and All Global Circle. So if you get invited to a survey, then you can generally complete it and get the honoraria.

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General Practice Healthcare Healthcare Medical 246

Ben White

JUNE 20, 2023

A lot of the most compelling educational literature forming the basis for our current conception of optimal learning is well-summarized in the Make it Stick (the big three being spaced repetition, retrieval practice, and interleaving). A less academic and more casual book repackaging of this evidence-based approach is Ultralearning by Scott Young.

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Radiology IT Image Interpretation Communication 225

Ben White

MAY 30, 2023

I posted two tweets the other day that deserve some further discussion: RadPartners is now behind on paying its “unique” “profit sharing” proceeds to its “partners.” By holding onto their radiologists’ money for longer, they can keep these funds earning interest, which helps their bottom line. RP needs (or believes they need) to do this now.

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Private Practice Radiology Teleradiology IT 246

Ben White

JANUARY 10, 2024

The American Dialect Society chose their 2023 word of the year : enshittificati o n. From its coiner, Cory Doctorow : Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.

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IT 278

Ben White

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In the meantime, PowerScribe is ubiquitous in radiology practices across the country, and it’s the only dictation software I use in my job. It has many flaws, but there are plenty of things we can do to make the most of it. You can change the trigger word for AutoText macros from the default “PowerScribe” to “Macro.”

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Ben White

JANUARY 5, 2024

I assure you no one starts a blog during their first year of medical school in 2009 and says, one day I hope to p**s on organized medicine and large corporations as a hobby forever. With that said… § The ACR runs a large and presumably quite profitable job forum. (I I’m not even saying these are bad jobs.

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Private Practice Radiology Teleradiology Hospital 182

Ben White

JANUARY 16, 2024

When I was younger, it was management by objective. It’s all a crock. They’re all after-the-fact management techniques: “You’ve failed, and I know that because we are going out of business tomorrow.” All after the fact. You’ve ruined this department; all the good people have left. So now I’m firing you.” It doesn’t work. You can never manage it.

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IT 173

Ben White

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

After all, good care is inefficient (also discussed here and here ). And while it’s not feasible in all work settings, at least for ourselves we can learn focus and self-accountability through the Basis of No. On Failure What if I screw up? Nobody has ever been fired at Valve for making a mistake. Look for ways to test your beliefs.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Communication 189

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Most radiologists have heard of Moore’s Law. It was named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. In 1965, he observed that the number of components on a microchip had been doubling every year. He also predicted that this would continue for at least ten years. In 1975, he revised this to every two years. I still don’t know how they did it.

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Radiologist Fluoroscopy Radiograph Radiographer 124

Ben White

MARCH 17, 2024

Should New Residents Worry about Efficiency and Ergonomics? I don’t think it’s ever too early to start thinking deliberately about what makes you better and more efficient in your job or able to act more sustainably. If anything, spending more time on workflow and ergonomics early on in your career is an investment in yourself.

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Diagnostic PACS Radiology IT 173

Ben White

JANUARY 22, 2024

Among other things, the arbitration panel might be vacating its own award itself. Err…what? Arbitrators Must be Impartial The short of it is that arbitration–a way of settling disputes outside of court–is supposed to be conducted by an impartial unbiased independent third-party arbitrator. Ugh, this is the world we live in.)

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Radiology Insurance IT Healthcare 162

Ben White

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

They may not know how to run a radiology business, but they inarguably understand how to play the finance game: Radiology Partners completed its “ comprehensive set of financing transactions to strengthen its financial position.” In doing so, they ended up raising $720 million in preferred equity.

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Radiology Radiologist IT 173

Ben White

MAY 31, 2024

It may just be the marketing, but the newly announced DC-1 tablet from Daylight seems poised to scratch an itch of our times. As summarized by Om Malik : What the company has created is a beautiful tablet — about the size of a normal iPad Air. It is just a “little less than white,” white, with a gorgeous screen. I love at least the idea of this.

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IT 147

Ben White

AUGUST 16, 2024

The ability to join a thriving independent practice where doctors get paid for the full amount of their professional work and have the autonomy to choose how to do it is what forces employers to compete. It’s the anchor. It’s the BATNA that every hospital and corporate suit knows you have. It’s what keeps them honest.

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Private Practice Radiology Radiologist IT 173

Ben White

JULY 15, 2024

From Paul Graham’s “ The Right Kind of Stubborn “: The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it. So the obstinate aren’t merely attached to details, but disproportionately likely to be attached to wrong ones. And then there are those for whom expertise is a status.

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IT 147

Ben White

MARCH 25, 2024

From last year’s “ Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result ” by David Merritt Johns in The Atlantic (“Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.”): Science engages with busy minds that have strong views about how things are and ought to be.”

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Public Health IT 162

Ben White

MARCH 6, 2024

We could summarize this especially desirable kind of learning as deliberate practice. It’s simple to just get through the stack. Eventually, the muscle routines come no matter what, and you’ll gradually improve over your first five years in practice. And that’s when you open it and see the obvious miss.

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Clinic IT Imaging Radiology 162

Ben White

MARCH 20, 2023

The late Hans Rosling gave an amazingly popular TED talk back in 2006 (and many other popular talks since). You may have seen it. It’s the one showing recent human progress by following counties over time as a series of bubbles. It’s not all rosy, but it shows us how counterintuitive reality can be compared with our usually grimmer assumptions.

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Radiologist Education Hospital IT 198

Ben White

JULY 5, 2024

Introduction Disability Insurance is a boring and expensive but critical component of a physician’s financial plan. While life insurance pays your beneficiaries when you die, disability insurance pays you when you can’t work due to a medical condition. It is what it is. For example, own-occupation costs more than any-occupation.

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Insurance Medical IT Clinic 162

Ben White

OCTOBER 8, 2024

That is to say, the account owner can choose when they want to be taxed on the funds in the account (which is what happens when pre-tax funds are converted to Roth), and make those dollars tax-free from that point on. The ability to choose when income is recognized only goes in one direction, from traditional to Roth.

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IT 147

Ben White

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The explanations are post-hoc rationalizations; they do not produce the results. But if you look at the performance, if you get close to it, it is all there. Looking at the final product to reverse engineer the process can be an impossible task. This is why seeing doctors and surgeons practice medicine and operate is so important.

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