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Publisher | Springer, Berlin |
Year | |
Pages | 232 |
Version | paperback |
Language | English |
ISBN | 9783030536121 |
Categories | Medical imaging |
Aiming at building efficient radiology operations, this book walks the reader through the entire radiology workflow, from the moment that the examination is requested to the reporting of findings. Using their practical experience, the authors draw attention to the many elements that can go wrong at each step, and explain how critical analysis and objective metrics can be used to fix broken processes. Readers will learn how to measure the efficiency of their workflows, where to find relevant data, and how to use it in the most productive ways. The book also addresses how data can be turned into insightful operational information to produce organizational change.
All aspects of radiology operations are considered including ordering, scheduling, protocols, checking-in, image acquisition, image interpretation, communication, and billing. The closing section provides a deeper dive into the advanced tools and techniques that are used to analyze operations, including queuing theory, process mining and artificial intelligence.
Efficient Radiology: How to Optimize Radiology Operations
From the authors
From the industry guru
Part I: Data and Sense
1. A word about numbers
2. Data sources and data problems in radiology
3. Mining your workflow: What's going on?
4. Driving your workflow: Goals and metrics
Part II: Optimizing radiology workflow
5. Ordering
6. Scheduling
7. Protocols
8. Checking-in
9. Image acquisition a. Examination durationb. Performing the examination
c. Handling the images
10. Interpretation
11 . Communication
12. Billing
Part III: Strategies and challenges
13. Utilization and limits of efficiency
1 4. Decision making
15 . Implementation challenges
16. Efficiency for the patients
17. Conclusions