article thumbnail

AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

AuntMinnie

Our top article in 2014 reported on the financial benefits of health information exchanges. Editor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years.

X-ray 59
article thumbnail

Practice consolidation may benefit radiologists

AuntMinnie

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from between 2014 and 2023 to identify all U.S. The group found the following: Changes in practice characteristics, 2014 to 2023 Measure Percentage changes between 2014 and 2023 Number of radiologists in practice +17.3 The researchers used data from the U.S. 3 to 9 -34.4%

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Practice must pay $14M after table collapses under patient during imaging exam, jury rules

Radiology Business

The original inciting incident occurred in July 2014, when 58-year-old James Griswold visited the Connecticut provider group for a nuclear stress imaging test.

Imaging 122
article thumbnail

Radiology Study Shows Nearly 350 Percent Increase of Practices with 100 or More Radiologists

Diagnostic Imaging

There was over a 31 percent decline in radiology-only practices and over a 25 percent decrease of practices employing 10-24 radiologists, according to new research examining consolidation trends in radiology from 2014 to 2023.

article thumbnail

A Race Against Time: How One Idaho Hospital Added a New CT Suite to Better Serve Its Community

Cassling's MRI

Since 2014, Bonner General Health in Sand Point, Idaho, has experienced a staggering 73% increase in the number of CT scans they perform annually. This number is a direct result of the influx of population into the area.

article thumbnail

RSNA Makes Strides in Narrowing Radiology Gender Gap

Imaging Technology

In 2023, data reveal a positive trend in RSNA annual meeting faculty gender diversity, with 55% male and 43% female speakers, compared with 67% male and 29% female speakers in 2014. In 2023, the composition of RSNA committee chairs was 58% male and 42% female, compared with 72% male and 28% female in 2014.

Radiology 101
article thumbnail

The state of radiology: Part 1 -- Is practice building dead?

AuntMinnie

Using data gathered from the Medicare Provider Data Catalog for the years 2014-2023, Christensen saw an emerging trend of radiologists moving to large multispecialty practices. Notable in this research is the magnitude of all medical practice changes since 2014. Bigger better? of practices w/ 1-2 radiologists No.