Geraldine B. McGinty MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Richard Duszak MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Giles W. Boland MD, Presenter: Principal, Radiology Consulting Group Royalties, Reed Elsevier

1) To understand value-focused healthcare imperatives in the evolution of healthcare delivery systems and how they impact medical imaging. 2) To implement practice changes aligned with Imaging 3.0 so as to maximize the relevance of radiology and radiologists in ongoing health system changes. 3) To improve the delivery of imaging care by focusing on value chain opportunities. (This course is part of the Leadership Track)

Although radiology’s dramatic evolution over the last century has profoundly affected patient care for the better, our current system is fragmented with many providers focusing more on technology and physician needs rather than what really matters to patients: better value and outcomes. This latter dynamic is aligned with current national health care reform initiatives and creates both challenges and opportunities for radiologists to find ways to deliver new value for patients. The American College of Radiology has responded to this challenge with the introduction of Imaging 3.0, which represents a call to action to all radiologists to assume leadership roles in shaping America’s future health care system through 5 key pillars: imaging appropriateness, quality, safety, efficiency, and satisfaction. That enhanced value will require modulation of imaging work processes best understood through the concept of the imaging value chain, which will be the focus of this course.

McGinty, G, Duszak, R, Boland, G, Aligning Incentives Along the Imaging Value Chain.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14000878.html