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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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Shaping the future of radiology in 2025: Trends, threats, and opportunities

AuntMinnie

Radiology is undergoing significant changes in 2025, driven by healthcare advancements, regulatory challenges, and workforce dynamics. Key trends include hospital consolidation of radiology services, the need for stronger cybersecurity, and innovative strategies to address staffing shortages.

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ACR opens doors of AI quality-assurance center

Radiology Business

Radiology practice leaders have a new way to assure their patients, communities, referrers and payers—and their own people—that the AI products they use are in compliance with safety and efficacy guidelines set by the American College of Radiology.

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Financial incentives significantly increase radiologist compliance with quality-improvement initiative

Radiology Business

UT Southwestern has introduced a grading template in knee radiograph reports to help decrease the use of unnecessary MR imaging.

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Alara offers free software for MPFS quality measure compliance

AuntMinnie

Alara Imaging is offering free HIPAA and SOC-II certified software to help physicians and health systems comply with a new radiation dose quality measure included in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule for 2024. CMS published the rule on November 2.

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Feedback as a Radiology Resident

Ben White

The Good Jobber and the Critical Curmudgeon Most radiology resident evaluations are a one-way trip on the keep reading express. Feedback as a first-year radiology resident is often more a measure of compliance than growth. At any given time, you may be working on a specific part of your approach to radiology.

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ACR launches AI quality assurance program for radiology facilities

AuntMinnie

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is launching the ACR Recognized Center for Healthcare-AI (ARCH-AI) in what the college is calling the first national AI quality assurance program for radiology facilities.