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.

Which LLM is best for explaining radiology results?
With patients gaining access to imaging reports earlier than ever, it's critical they have access to large language models that can accurately summarize the results.
Mammography services suspended at 2 hospitals following ACR review
A news release indicates the suspensions are due to breast images not meeting the college's clinical quality standards.
Significant variability found in pediatric CT imaging interpretations
Such discordance between pediatric and general radiologists could result in care delays and treatment changes.
Medicare releases guidance on new model targeting ‘wasteful’ radiology procedures
CMS explains how IR specialists can submit prior authorization requests to the federal payment program for seniors, including what evidence is required.
Beyond just nodules—model uses all low-dose CT data to make long-term lung cancer risk predictions
New findings published in RSNA's Radiology highlight the shortcomings of using nodule characteristics and patient history alone to predict an individual’s true cancer risk.

AMA: 4 ways to eat healthily from social media’s medical smorgasbord

With their broad reach across all demographic categories, social media platforms are connecting healthcare influencers and stakeholders across every area of activity in which one might hold a stake. Of course, that’s a good thing and a bad thing.

The 5 most common mistakes to avoid in radiology quality improvement projects

Hubris is the fundamental failure of most such endeavors, Stanford imaging experts wrote in JACR.

Radiology department uses a systems-based approach to reduce unscheduled imaging orders by 49%

Harvard experts recently detailed their System for Coordinating Orders for Radiology Exams, or SCORE, in JACR.

Needed medical equipment going unused in hospitals due to avoidable repair lapses

The COVID crisis has swollen the demand for repairs to hospitals’ overworked medical equipment at the same time it has, in effect, shrunken the field of qualified repair workers.

American College of Radiology updates imaging appropriateness criteria with 6 new topics

The latest release covers clinical scenarios such as imaging of mediastinal masses and screening for fetal anomalies during the second and third trimester.

Offering imaging exam for free ups utilization by 546%, with key gains in underserved populations

University Hospitals Health System tested the pricing change in a bid to boost outcomes in its service area.

Tech firm focused on quashing misdiagnoses in radiology scores key designation from the feds

Covera Health joins a list of less than 100 entities in the U.S. that have earned this nod from AHRQ.

‘The best radiology in the world’: How Radiology Alliance and the University of Rochester scored a triple win on incidental findings

Quality

Which LLM is best for explaining radiology results?

Mammography services suspended at 2 hospitals following ACR review

Significant variability found in pediatric CT imaging interpretations

Medicare releases guidance on new model targeting ‘wasteful’ radiology procedures

Beyond just nodules—model uses all low-dose CT data to make long-term lung cancer risk predictions