Are you looking for a CT Dose Monitoring solution or frustrated by the complexity of your current solution? Is your current solution confusing to the point of non-use? If so, please consider DoseID. DoseID is an affordable, turn-key CT Dose Monitoring service for hospitals, health systems, imaging centers, and physician practices. Our DoseID service leverages… Read More
DIR Corporate-level Aggregate Reports Are Back- Update
As I wrote previously, access to Corporate level Aggregate DIR reports were several restricted after the NRDR changed the organizational structure for facilities submitting data. One of the biggest changes was the establishment of the “Corporate” account under, and to, which all child sites would be assigned. Initially, the Corporate level Aggregate reports were not… Read More
Joint Commission Compliant Fluoroscopic Dose Optimization Course
This course is designed to meet The Joint Commission’s annual training requirement for physicians, non-physicians, and ancillary personnel who use fluoroscopic equipment. It covers and/or provides links to the following information: Radiation dose optimization techniques and tools for pediatric and adult patients addressed in the Image Gently® campaign; and, Safe procedures for operation of the… Read More
Dose Registry Support Services – Our Story
At my direction, our facility began submitting CT dose data to the ACR’s Dose Index Registry® (DIR) in early 2013. During the following months I learned to use the DIR to identify dose reduction opportunities, and lower our CT doses. In August 2105 The Joint Commission (TJC) updated its diagnostic imaging Elements of Performance requiring… Read More
Tailored DIR Analysis; Is your current solution providing less for more?
The Dose Index Registry (DIR) is a powerful, flexible tool from which facilities can learn a great deal. The most common use is to use the DIR’s dose comparison reports identify dose reduction opportunities: Never before have facilities been able to identify dose reduction opportunities so easily. But, there is so much more to glean… Read More
Providing Low-cost, Tailored & Unique Services to Community Hospitals and Radiology Groups
The Dose Index Registry (DIR) is a powerful, flexible tool from which facilities can learn a great deal. The most common use is to use the DIR’s dose comparison reports identify dose reduction opportunities: Never before have facilities been able to identify dose reduction opportunities so easily. But, there is so much more to glean… Read More
Dose Registry Support Services: What we do and why you should consider using our services
Dose Registry Support Services is founded on two premises: Radiology departments should lead their facility’s dose reduction efforts; Facilities need and want effective solutions at a reasonable cost. Our service is designed to achieve both. I developed this service for a health system in the mid-west. We enrolled some of their facilities in the DIR… Read More
Dose Registry Support Services Success Stories
Here are recent examples of the successes two of our sites reported to their radiation safety committees. This first example is a chart showing one facility’s average monthly Total DLP for its Chest Angio studies from early 2016 through Q1 2018. Overall, this site reduced its average Total DLP for its Chest Angio studies by… Read More
Conference Speaking Engagement: Dose Index Registry – Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned
I just returned from having presented at the Health Connect Partners 2017 Radiology & Imaging Conference. My topic: Using the DIR to Meet TJC’s Dose Incident Identification & Review Requirements. During the presentation I gave an overview of the DIR and shared what we’ve learned from having participated in it for four years, including specific… Read More
Dose Reduction Case Study – Is Your CT Scanner Table Increasing Patient Dose?
During the 2017 Landauer Clinical Dose Optimization Symposium one of the session speakers, Douglas Pfeiffer, a medical physicist with Blackthorn Medical Physics, reported he had found the table-head rest extension connection mechanism increased CTDIvol and DLP when the body part being imaged was positioned over the connection mechanism. Following the symposium, we worked with a… Read More
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