AHRA Announces Patient First Program Recipients
Improving patient care and safety in diagnostic imaging is an important issue to hospitals, physicians and administrators today. Helping to support this need, the AHRA, the association for medical imaging management announced grant recipients of the Patient First Program at this month’s Radiological Society of North America annual meeting in Chicago. The program was funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.
The first recipients include:
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center’s “Best Practices in Computerized Tomography”
Focusing on the use of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria, this program will use evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging and treatment decisions, coupled with the most appropriate scanning protocols for CT to image patients more safely.
Washington Hospital Center’s “Standardized Handoff Communication”
This program focuses on the use of green, yellow and red handoff forms as an effective tool to improve patient safety and outcomes.
Jennie Edmundson Hospital’s “Metformin Flagging Process”
This program uses barcodes for Type II diabetic patients’ armbands and IV contrast with the goal of developing a decision support rule that will alert pharmacists.
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