Newswise — Jacob Reider, MD, acting chief medical officer of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, will deliver the keynote address on imaging and the future of meaningful use at this year’s ACR Annual Informatics Summit and NRDR User Group Conference. Imaging providers, policy makers and IT decision makers are all encouraged to attend the two-day event being held Oct. 11-12 at the Park Hyatt in Washington, DC.
“The topics being presented at this year’s Annual Imaging Informatics Summit are critical to the success of imaging in today’s world. I encourage all radiology and health care professionals to come get the latest information on meaningful use and decision-support systems, and network with top experts in imaging informatics. These topics are increasingly important as health care reform moves forward and current delivery and payment models evolve,” said Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM, chair of the ACR IT and Informatics Committee.
The Annual Imaging Informatics Summit, Thursday, Oct. 11, will bring together policy makers, industry partners, consumers and providers to discuss topics such as:
• Meaningful Use Stage 2 – What do practices need to know now and what initiatives are vendors taking to meet the evolving demands?
• Decision Support – Emerging solutions in real-time decision-support suggest a new paradigm for ordering imaging tests. What are the issues and what do you need to know? • Mobile Devices – How do practices strategically adapt to accommodate mobile solutions? What are the opportunities and constraints of the progressive mobile imaging landscape?
The NRDR User Group Conference, Friday, Oct. 12, is a platform for facilities participating in ACR registries to discuss, and for interested policy makers and potential participants to learn about:
• Best ways of using registries for quality improvement
• Challenges faced in the process of registry participation and how to overcome them
• Improvements to registries that will make them more relevant to health care providers and patients
“Data registries for quality improvement and performance benchmarking, like the ACR Dose Index Registry, are becoming key components of health care delivery. Those radiology facilities currently participating in the ACR National Radiology Data Registry (NRDR) program, and those interested in doing so, are encouraged to attend the NRDR User Group Conference to learn more about the importance of dose monitoring and the advantages (and challenges) of doing so,” said Richard L. Morin, chair of the ACR Dose Index Registry Committee.
For more information, or to register, visit http://acrinformatics.org/.
To schedule an interview with an ACR spokesperson, please contact Heather Curry at 703-390-9822 or [email protected].
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