Quality

The focus of quality improvement in healthcare is to bolster performance and processes related to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Leaders in this space also ensure the proper selection of imaging exams and procedures, and monitor the safety of services, among other duties. Reimbursement programs such as the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) utilize financial incentives to improve quality. This also includes setting and maintaining care quality initiatives, such as the requirements set by the Joint Commission.

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Joint Commission announces revised requirements for diagnostic imaging

The Joint Commission has announced revised requirements for diagnostic imaging services, clarifying who is and is not qualified to perform diagnostic CT procedures. 

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Sleeping at Night: Cybersecurity, Patient Safety and the Radiology Department

No less than the Federal Bureau of Investigation put the healthcare industry on alert after a 2014 report1 revealed that at least 375 U.S. healthcare-related organizations had been breached by hackers between September 2012 and October 2013—some unwittingly.

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Radiology’s Best Days

Enough about the good old days—look ahead with new eyes

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Hospital Hookups: Implications for Imaging IT

Health systems and practices are scrambling to create cogent imaging informatics solutions in the face of hospital consolidation 

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Radiology’s reinvention: 4 lessons from the management consulting industry

It’s no secret that radiology is at a turning point in 2016. The industry is rapidly shifting toward a focus on quality-based healthcare, and radiologists are doing everything in their power to define and demonstrate the value of their services. According to a recent analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, this puts radiologists in a unique position within the healthcare industry. 

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Value-based care nothing new for women’s imaging

The move toward value-based care is one of radiology’s most talked-about topics, but according to a recent editorial in the American Journal of Roentgenology, it’s just another day in the office for women’s imaging.  

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4 essential things radiologists should know about physics in medical imaging

Ehsan Samei, PhD, Duke Clinical Imaging Physics Group, Duke University Medical Center, tackled this subject in a web-exclusive commentary for the American Journal of Roentgenology. Samei explained that understanding physics in imaging is “of crucial importance,” but trainees are being expected to know more and more as the industry continues to evolve.

ACR 2016: Influential patient advocate to deliver annual Moreton Lecture

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week that patient advocate Andy DeLaO is scheduled to deliver the Moreton Lecture at ACR 2016 in Washington, D.C. DeLaO—also known online as @CancerGeek—is expected to discuss ways physicians can add value to a patient’s medical experience. 

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Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

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