Imaging project highlights timeliness issues.
University Health System Consortium, Oak Brook, IL, sought to identify the best practices of members in processing imaging reports. Internal benchmarking found best practices include: reading images before patient leaves department; requiring radiologists to read all assigned cases before leaving each day; coordinating transcriptionists' schedules with radiologists' dictation patterns; and providing remote access to edit and sign off on transcribed reports.
D019985:Benchmarking; D017046:Cost Savings; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D007087:Illinois; D007857:Leadership; D006278:Medicare; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D017748:Time Management; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce