Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
If you work in a cardiology lab you know the challenges of scheduling patients for both their echocardiogram and nuclear stress test. The stress test is already a long day for the patient and so often, in an effort to accommodate our patients, we schedule both the echo and the stress test on the...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Most people dread accreditation! The paperwork and the time is a drag! “How do you enjoy this?” is a question I hear often! I will let you in on a secret. Accreditation is a lot easier than people know! In addition, the entire team at IAC (Intersocietal Accreditation Commission) are...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month (MUAM) is held annually in October to create awareness of the role diagnostic medical sonographers play in the medical community and to educate the public about medical ultrasound and its many uses in healthcare. We would like to recognize and thank the...
Written by Rhiannon Anderson and Judith Buckland
This month we reviewed radiation safety and patient-centered nuclear cardiology protocols. To close out our March focus on nuclear cardiology, this week we will review IAC nuclear accreditation requirements for on-going Quality Improvement (QI) and provide easy steps to creating your own...
Written by Judith Buckland, RDCS, FASE, MBA
Helping Physicians "See"
For all of us involved in quality improvement measures within our lab our goal is to drive change. Reporting physician compliance with turnaround time or participating in group peer review sessions to track interpretive variability can often generate some lively...
Cardioserv Blog
