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Inside Quality & Safety
September 2019
Q&S Conference: Make a Difference [ [link removed] ]
Transforming the Patient Experience [ [link removed] ]
Marta E. Heilbrun, MD, MS
Alex J. Towbin, MD
In this issue, Marta E. Heilbrun, MD, MS, and Alex J. Towbin, MD, share insights about how the ACR® Annual Conference on Quality and Safety [ [link removed] ] can help you transform the patient experience by strengthening your quality improvement efforts and boosting innovation to deliver more patient-centered care. Learn more » [ [link removed] ]
Clinical
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Access all the breast imaging resources [ [link removed] ] the ACR offers, including our new “Talking to Patients about Breast Cancer Screening” CME Toolkit [ [link removed] ] — with CME Credit and materials for referring clinicians.
Ready to modernize and streamline your mammography QC? Here’s how the 2018 ACR Digital Mammography Quality Control Manual [ [link removed] ] can help you with planning and training your team.
Participate in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST) [ [link removed] ] and help shape breast cancer screening policy. Access the TMIST fact card [ [link removed] ] for more details.
PAMA is coming Jan. 1, 2020. Register for our new CDS webinar [ [link removed] ] to help your organization and referring physicians prepare. Access the latest CDS information, tools and tips [ [link removed] ] for meeting the mandate.
Your feedback on the 2020 Draft ACR Practice Parameters & Technical Standards [ [link removed] ] helps improve the quality of care for your patients. Field review [ [link removed] ] is now open. Make your voice heard!
The ACR Committee on MR Safety recently published a new article — ACR Guidance Document on MR Safe Practices [ [link removed] ] — in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Read this important notice about a declaration of material change in the MR phantom [ [link removed] ] . Although the Slice 5 insert design and material have changed, there is no impact on current scanning requirements.
Coming soon: The O-RADS Ultrasound (US) Risk Stratification and Management system [ [link removed] ] will provide malignancy risk assessment for ovarian/adnexal masses based on a standardized lexicon with a management strategy for each risk category.
Know the facts; share the facts. Access a wealth of shareable lung cancer screening (LCS) resources [ [link removed] ] , including patient/physician shared decision aids, myth busters, FAQs and a content-rich LCS webinar series [ [link removed] ] .
The R-SCAN Patient Engagement Toolkit [ [link removed] ] provides a step-by-step guide to improve imaging care with a patient-centered approach.
R-SCAN enters a new phase. [ [link removed] ] As the TCPi grant ends, the CDS R-SCAN Registry and R-SCAN Web Portal continue efforts to improve high-value imaging.
Quality Measures
Get ready for GRID 2.0 [ [link removed] ] . What’s on tap: new quality measures, a focus on exam- and patient-level data and help from ACR Assist® for easier and more consistent reporting.
Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDR) deadlines [ [link removed] ] are rapidly approaching for 2019 MIPS participation.
Get highlights from the 2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule [ [link removed] ] , including changes made to payment adjustments, measures finalized for removal and more.
ACR Accreditation
Coming soon: ACR Accreditation is finalizing a new help desk solution to streamline customer support and enhance access to accreditation program requirements and related information. Watch this newsletter and the ACR Accreditation website [ [link removed] ] for updates.
ACR News
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The ACR has acquired the My CT Colonography (CTC) site locator [ [link removed] ] , an easy-to-use, online tool that helps patients quickly find a nearby CTC screening center. Facilities that offer CTC are strongly encouraged to register online to join the My CT Colonography center locator. Our goal is to have sites register their CTC facilities to make them easier for patients to find. Learn more » [ [link removed] ]
Imaging 3.0 in Practice: Quick Wins [ [link removed] ] . This new case study collection highlights how radiologists are implementing value-based programs and tools that you, too, can implement in your practice today. “Everyone doesn’t have to do everything, but everyone can do something to move toward Imaging 3.0.” –Geraldine B. McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR, Chair, ACR Board of Chancellors
Early Detection Matters: [ [link removed] ] Leveraging leadership practices gained from the Imaging 3.0 initiative and Radiology Leadership Institute®, a radiologist with a private practice in Michigan has led development of a successful lung cancer screening program.
Conference Highlight: Visit ACR Booth #3316 in the South Hall at RSNA 2019 [ [link removed] ] , from Dec. 1–6, 2019, in Chicago, IL.
JACR Q&S Roundup
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Quality in Practice
• My First Quality Improvement Project [ [link removed](19)30025-0/fulltext ]
• Quantifying Value-Based Imaging [ [link removed](19)30529-0/abstract ]
New Patient-Friendly Summaries of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®
• Acute Pyelonephritis [ [link removed](19)30740-9/fulltext ]
• Orbits, Vision, and Visual Loss [ [link removed](19)30053-5/fulltext ]
• Pretreatment Staging of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer [ [link removed](19)30044-4/fulltext ]
• Lower Extremity Arterial Revascularization—Post-Therapy Imaging [ [link removed](18)30336-3/fulltext ]
• Hearing Loss and/or Vertigo [ [link removed](19)30055-9/fulltext ]
• Imaging After Total Knee Arthroplasty [ [link removed](19)30137-1/fulltext ]
• Sinusitis–Child [ [link removed](19)30263-7/fulltext ]
• Suspected Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis [ [link removed](19)30451-X/abstract ]
• Tinnitus [ [link removed](19)30532-0/abstract ]
• Radiologic Management of Central Venous Access [ [link removed](19)30589-7/abstract ]
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