August 9, 2023

Aunt Minnie Feature Article: Imaging Accreditation with Quality and Ease Part 2

While vital for high-quality care, accreditation can be challenging and sometimes tedious for imaging departments. To help, this article series will offer some tips for how to comply with the latest Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Quality Improvement (QI) requirements with quality and ease. We will focus on interpretive quality and report completeness.

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Aunt Minnie Feature Article: Imaging Accreditation with Quality and Ease: Part 1

While vital for high-quality care, accreditation can be challenging and sometimes tedious for imaging departments. To help, this new article series will offer some tips for how to comply with the latest Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Quality Improvement (QI) requirements with quality and ease, more specifically with test appropriateness and technical quality.

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4 Steps to Mastering the Correct Way to Measure the LA Volume

In recent blogs we have reviewed the correct techniques for measuring the size of the left ventricle and the aorta. This week we will review the correct way to measure the left atrium. The updated standards on chamber quantification, released last year by the American Society of Echocardiography, provided new information and guidelines on correct measurement of the left atrium. There was a huge change to the reference range of the left atrial size.

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6 Pitfalls of Accurate LV Measurements

Last year the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) released updated guidelines for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography. The ASE teamed up with the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging to update the previous guidelines due to the rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in echocardiographic practice brought about by these developments.

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Smart Strategies for Accreditation Success

This is the final blog in our 6-part Accreditation Hack Series. It’s been great sharing our time saving hacks and our tips to streamline the accreditation process. By now you may have noticed one thing… here at CardioServ we love what we do! We are passionate about improving the quality of diagnostic imaging. It’s this passion that drives us to be relentless with our pursuit of excellence and steadfast in our commitment to improving the accreditation process for the diagnostic community. We believe in using an innovative process to give you a strategic advantage to successful accreditation.

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The 4 Most Effective Tactics for Gathering Clinical Correlation

For those following our blog series you should be getting the hang of streamlining your QI Program by now. This week we will tackle the dreaded clinical correlation! Wait… before you cringe and close out this blog let me share some good news! IAC recently changed the correlation requirements for many of the modalities.

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Technical and Interpretive Measures…the Perfect Pair!

In our Accreditation Hack blog series we are revealing our strategies to help you accomplish compliance with all IAC mandated QI measures. Last week we provided 3 timesaving hacks to complete your Report Completeness measure with quality and ease. This week we will share 3 consultant secrets to complete both your technical and interpretive QI measures while keeping your sanity!

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Time Saving Hacks While Improving Quality

Remember, when we say Accreditation Hacks – the word ‘hack’ is a good thing! We provide timesaving hacks while improving quality. With our tips, suggestions and resources you have the ultimate combination of quality and ease. Our goal is to allow you to focus on excellence and to practice the highest level of quality possible with ease and simplicity

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