JACR Provides Keys to Successful Radiology Business Planning

Newswise — Reston, VA — February’s Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) provides clinical practice management insights — including the keys to successful business planning and ways to foster leadership development. This month’s journal also features a reprint supplement on computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening.

Select articles not previously released online are listed below.An Organizational Perspective and a Team Approach: Keys to Successful Business Planning: A business plan communicates to you and your organization why and how you would like to direct key resources of money, time, personnel and space to complete a project and enhance the organization’s mission. Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA

Quality Improvement and Leadership Development: Mindful engagement may help radiology in meeting leadership challenges during the shift to value-based care and may help fill the gap caused by loss of baby boomer leadership capacities. Nadja Kadom, MD; Paul Nagy, PhD

What Radiology Can Learn From the Management Consulting Industry: Radiologists and radiology groups, as the management consultants of modern medicine, may draw several key insights from the management consulting industry. Alexander S. Misono, MD, MBA; Anand M. Prabhakar, MD; Raymond W. Liu, MD; and Sanjay K. Shetty, MD, MBA

CT Lung Cancer Screening: Reprints of articles published over the past several years provide a collective how-to of considerations for institutions that may initiate programs, based on the experiences of those who have done it already. The articles delve into the thought processes of experts as to what problems may confront radiologists in maintaining programs in the future. “By providing advice on how to make lung cancer screening easier and more efficient, we hope to improve access to the procedure, so that as many patients as possible can avail themselves of its lifesaving benefits,” notes JACR editor Bruce J. Hillman, MD, FACR, in the supplement’s introduction. JACR is the official journal of the American College of Radiology, providing information on topics affecting the practice of diagnostic radiologists, interventional radiologists, medical physicists and radiation oncologists. For related information, visit the journal’s blog or participate in its Twitter chats.

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About the American College of Radiology The American College of Radiology (ACR), founded in 1924, is a professional medical society dedicated to serving patients and society by empowering radiology professionals to advance the practice, science and professions of radiological care. To arrange an interview with any ACR member or get JACR articles, please contact Shawn Farley at 703-648-8936, Maryann Verrillo at 703-390-9822 or email [email protected].