Hot Topic - Session 9: Leveraging IT for Quality and Safety
Saturday, May 17, 2008
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Ballroom 6A
Session Chair: Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Session
Description: This session will describe ways that Information Technology can be
used to measure, monitor, and enhance quality and safety in your
radiology practice, including methods to improve the communication
between radiologists and technologists for improved image quality, and
metrics to enhance quality of care by optimizing radiology test
ordering. Proactive systems that direct physician actions, resulting in
better quality and safety, will be described.
Participants:
Using IT to Optimize the Selection of Imaging Exams
Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how health care delivery systems are focusing on medical
errors and improving quality of care.
2. Describe the quality problem in the ordering process.
3. Summarize results to date of efforts toward patient centered
evidence-based medicine to reduce medical errors.
Using IT to Ensure Image Quality
Paul G. Nagy
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore techniques to leverage a PACS system for image
quality control purposes.
2. Explain automating issue submission from the radiologist to enable
quality control.
3. Describe methods to enable a culture of quality in radiology with peer
review.
Using IT to Improve the Quality and Safety of Radiology
Communications Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Learning
Objectives:
1. Identify test ordering process deficiencies predisposing to
suboptimal quality of care and how IT can moderate these.
2. Describe process control methods for quality reporting.
3. Identify and evaluate current IT limitations accommodated by
radiologists.
4. Describe methods to improve the quality of radiology reporting.
