Practice Management: Page 599

Audit tool improves contrast billing accuracy
By Cynthia E. Keen
Thursday, December 2 | 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. | LL-INS-TH3A | Lakeside Learning CenterTo reduce inaccuracies in documentation of contrast administration and to improve billing accuracy, the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System created an audit tool. The results have been nothing short of remarkable.
November 17, 2010
Data mining with natural language processing identifies mammo trends
By Cynthia E. Keen
Thursday, December 2 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSQ10-09 | Room S402ABResearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston will present their findings of a study on clinical data mining with natural language processing to identify the most common breast pathologies and their notation in nearly 75,000 mammography reports.
November 17, 2010
Automation of exam header details improves rad report accuracy
By Cynthia E. Keen
Wednesday, December 1 | 3:10 p.m.-3:20 p.m. | SSM12-02 | Room S102DWhen diagnostic imaging exam header details are automatically inserted into a radiology report, the percentage of errors that can occur when these details are manually added can drop dramatically, according to researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
November 17, 2010
Patient-centric dashboard identifies bottlenecks, inefficiencies
By Cynthia E. Keen
Wednesday, December 1 | 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. | LL-INE1215-WEA | Lakeside Learning CenterA team from Aga Khan University Hospital in Pakistan has developed an automated dashboard designed to share exam status information with patients in waiting rooms, and will discuss how it can be used as a quality improvement tool to identify department bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
November 17, 2010
Real-time CT dose monitoring/reporting system debuts
By Cynthia E. Keen
Wednesday, December 1 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SSK09-07 | Room S402ABIn an informatics scientific session focusing on quality and safety, a team from Stanford University in Stanford, CA, will present an approach that it has developed to perform real-time CT dose monitoring and reporting.
November 17, 2010
RSNA report templates improve US report turnaround time
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 30 | 12:45 p.m.-1:15 p.m. | LL-QSE3035-TUB | Lakeside Learning CenterThe use of RSNA reporting templates and a speech recognition software system can provide a faster way to generate near-real-time reporting for priority and "stat" ultrasound exams, according to radiologists from Aga Khan University Hospital in Pakistan.
November 17, 2010
Toolbox for RIS/PACS offers quality and safety management utility
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 30 | 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. | LL-QSE3053-TUA | Lakeside Learning CenterThis poster presentation and exhibit will explain the development and successful implementation of a multipurpose "quality toolbox" at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
November 17, 2010
What clinicians want in a critical results reporting system
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 30 | 11:20 a.m-11:30 a.m. | SSG07-06 | Room S102DWhat do clinicians want from an automated critical and urgent results reporting system? The radiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, conducted an electronic survey to find out and report their findings in this scientific session.
November 17, 2010
Natural language processing helps mine data on follow-up imaging exams
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 30 | 10:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SSG08-03 | Room S402ABIn this scientific session, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston discuss how they used a natural language processing program to mine data to analyze trends in recommendation rates over a 16-year period for high-cost versus low-cost imaging exams following a primary abdominal ultrasound study.
November 17, 2010
Structured report model for imaging research offers utility
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 30 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SSG08-01 | Room S402ABIn an informatics scientific session focusing on radiology reporting and results communication, Daniel Rubin, MD, will describe ClearCapture, an open-source structured reporting tool integrated into an image viewing workstation. It is designed to assist in the comprehensive collection of information that is required for imaging research studies and could ultimately be extended to clinical practice.
November 17, 2010
Critical results reporting process improved in Ky.
By Cynthia E. Keen
Monday, November 29 | 12:45 p.m.-1:15 p.m. | LL-QSE3042-MOB | Lakeside Learning CenterThis poster presentation will describe how a sentinel event of a missed communication inspired a private radiology practice and a community hospital to work together to develop an inexpensive critical results reporting and documentation software program.
November 17, 2010
Dashboard monitors unread radiology exams in teaching hospital
By Cynthia E. Keen
Sunday, November 28 | 12:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m. | LL-QSE3051-SUA | Lakeside Learning CenterHow does a large urban teaching hospital with a radiology department that performs 360,000 exams a year ensure that every exam is reported in a timely manner? This poster presentation will explain how Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston tackled the problem by designing and implementing a radiology operations dashboard.
November 17, 2010
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