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Radiology Quality Police

Ben White

What is quality care, and how do you define it? I suspect for most people that quality is like pornography in the classic Supreme Court sense you know it when you see it. But quality is almost assuredly not viewed that way when zoomed out to look at care delivery in a broad, collective sense.

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Nociceptive responses to contrast CT aren't necessarily pathology

AuntMinnie

"The [review] findings suggest that optimizing patient management protocols by addressing both the physiological and psychological components of the [patient's] response can lead to improved patient compliance and higher-quality imaging outcomes," Scappatura wrote. The complete study can be found here.

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Doctors discuss prostate cancer imaging pressure points

AuntMinnie

MRI reports should include a quality reference remark that precedes the diagnosis, explained radiologist Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD. Radiologist Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, emphasized that poor-quality MRI images are leading to prostate cancer overdiagnosis. We should not create anxiety.

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Materialise Introduces Mimics Flow Case Management Supporting Quality Management and Compliance for Hospital 3D Printing Labs

Imaging Technology

The new offering enables hospitals to enforce quality management within 3D workflows, digitally streamline point-of-care and 3D printing processes, and empower collaboration between clinicians, 3D lab leaders, and engineers. Using the 3D viewer during consultations allows clinicians to share or open a view of their 3D models from any device.

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IAC Receives CMS Approval of MRI Standards

Imaging Technology

To achieve accreditation, facilities employing remote scanning must institute and adhere to policies addressing contingency processes for equipment and/or communication failure, internet instability and power outages. The approval of the revised Standards could not have come at a more pivotal or timely moment for the MRI community.

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Regulatory issues facing radiology groups in 2024

AuntMinnie

The requirement was first announced in March 2023 for facilities that are subject to the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). Information Blocking Rules Compliance with the CMS Information Blocking requirements went into effect on April 5, 2021.

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Addressing Compliance Challenges in DevOps and Hiring to Solve

MRI Network

We look at the effective strategies for addressing the DevOps compliance issue and how your team can keep projects running on schedule and by the book. How Can You Auomate Compliance Checks Throughout Your DevOps Pipeline? According to IBM, a data breach due to poor compliance costs companies an average of USD 5.57