Combating overutilization: radiology benefits managers versus order entry decision support.
Radiology benefits managers (RBMs) and computerized decision support offer different advantages and disadvantages in the efforts to provide appropriate use of radiology resources. RBMs are effective in their hard-stop ability to reject inappropriate studies, incur a significant cost, and interpose an intermediary between patient and physician. Decision support is a more friendly educational product, but has not been implemented for all clinical indications and its efficacy is still being studied.
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. dyousem1@jhu.edu
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D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006300:Health Services Misuse / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000639:trends*; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011871:Radiology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States