Posts Tagged ‘JCAHO’
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Alright, I don’t love the fact of being wrong, but my mission is to motivate improvements in MRI safety for patients, staff, and providers. I’m not the least bit interested in having the longest list of ‘I told you so’ moments, and I’m uncomfortable when someone applies the term ‘guru’ to me. I am openly, vocally, critical of organizations when I feel that they haven’t lived up to their obligation to reinforce MRI safety standards, so when one of them does well, I can’t tell you how happy I am to eat my prior words, and today is an example of that…
Click To Read Who Tobias Was Wrong About…
Tags: 4-zone, ACR, code, detector, emergency, ferromagnetic, four-zone, imaging, infection control, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic, MR Conditional, MRI, patient, radiology, resonance, safety, screening, survey, TJC
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
A few weeks ago the announcements came down, CMS had ‘deemed’ three organizations to accredit the new classification of Advanced Imaging in order to be eligible for Medicare & Medicaid reimbursement: the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Intersocietal Commission, and the Joint Commission (TJC).
The other two have had modality-specific accreditation programs for years, so what was the TJC going to do? Well, they’ve released their accreditation criteria, and one of the most wonderful surprises is that MRI safety is more prominent than it is in either of the other two ‘imaging’ accrediting bodies!
Click To Learn What’s In The New JCAHO Standard…
Tags: accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, detection, detector, ferromagnetic, ICAMRL, imaging, Intersocietal Commission, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic resonance, metal, MRI, radiology, recommendation, requirement, standard, survey, surveyor, TJC
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
And what’s even more alarming is that 20% of those implant patients that get MRIs experience some sort of device malfunction afterward! And yet, the dangers of imaging these patients are not well known by the doctors who prescribe these imaging studies.
Click To Learn Just How Many Doctors and Patients Are Ill-Informed Of These Risks…
Tags: accreditation, ACR, Aging, American College of Radiology, contraindicated, Council, device, doctor, FDA, imaging, implant, Intersocietal Commission, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic resonance, MRI, National, pacemaker, patient, regulation, scan, study, TJC
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Go grab yourself a cup of coffee before you continue… this is going to be a long (for me, anyway) rant.
Ready? OK…
Let’s start at the very beginning (“what a very good place to start”). Click To Read The Whole Story…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, ASHE, best practice, colombini, death, detector, ECRI, FDA, ferromagnetic, GE, guidelines, Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, healthcare, imaging, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, law, lawsuit, legal, license, magnetic, magnetic resonance, Marzendorfer, Mednovus, metal, Michael, MRI, MRI Design Guide, radiology, regulation, require, safety, Siemens, standard, TJC, VA
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
But 2010 holds the promise of reversing course.
Throughout 2009, we saw tantalizing glimpses of potential MRI safety improvements, which repeatedly escaped becoming real. Here are my ‘Top 3′ near-miss opportunities of 2009 to substantially reshape MR safety…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, best practice, FDA, imaging, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic resonance, MRI, radiology, regulation, safety, TJC
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
“Tweet, tweet” is usually all I hear from little birdies… but one little bird that flew past my office recently had a surprisingly large vocabulary and told me of new requirements that will be introduced in the forthcoming 2010 update to the ‘Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities’ (commonly referred to as ‘Guidelines’).
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Guidelines, they are the design requirements that are cited by the Joint Commission and, at last count, 42 of the 50 U.S. State Departments of Health. Technically, they aren’t a building code, but the function in almost the exact same way. For the first time, the Guidelines are going to have specific MRI suite design requirements for patient safety.
2010 Guidelines
Click Here To Read About The Specific MRI Safety Design Requirements…
Tags: accreditation, ACR, architecture, building code, design, detection, detector, Environment of Care, ferromagnetic, guidelines, hazard, imaging, JCAHO, Joint Commission, metal, MR, MRI, radiology, regulation, resonance, risk, safety, standard, standard of care, suite
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
As if you needed a personal invitation from me, here it is nonetheless. Please join me (and a several thousand of your colleagues) at the American Hot Rod Association [ahem] American Healthcare Radiology Administrators annual meeting in August. And though it may not really be my place to invite you to the conference, I do want to extend to you a personal invitation to 2½ special events that will happen during that week.
Click Here To Learn About Your Special 2½ Invitations…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, Administration, AHRA, alert, American Healthcare Radiology Administrators, best practice, booth, Environment of Care, Gilk, healthcare, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, lawsuit, legal, liability, Mednovus, MRI, presentation, radiology, regulation, risk, safety, standard of care, trade show
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Many people just learning about MRI safety and hazards ask very similar questions. One of most frequent is, “why do I have to remove all metal before an MRI,” or it’s corollary, “can I get an MRI with some metal on (or in) me?” To answer these questions, let’s start at the very beginning…
What A Very Good Place To Start… (Click Here)
Tags: ACR, aluminum, cobalt, danger, detect, detector, ferromagnetic, ferrous, hazard, iron, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic, metal, MRI, nickel, pacemaker, pre-screen, projectile, risk, safe, screening, stainless, steel, VA, Veterans Affairs
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
The March issue of Anesthesiology, the journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), contains a new Practice Advisory on the safety of anesthesia care in the MRI environment. This new call from the ASA for a heightened level of attention is concurrent with startling growth in the rates of reported MRI accidents. The $43,172 question… Will JCAHO answer?
As I see it, the new ASA MRI Practice Advisory does three things… Click to learn about the effects of the new ASA Advisory…
Tags: accident, ACR, American College of Radiology, Anesthesia, Anesthesiologist, ASA, control, Environment of Care, FDA, infection, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic, MRI, resnonce, safety, Society
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Break out the can of alphabet soup, because here we go, off into the far reaches of acronym land…
That’s right, the Joint Commission is offering a teleconference / webinar on the 2009 changes to the Environment of Care (EC) standard and what they mean to accredited MRI providers. Never heard of the EC standards before? Well, you’re not alone, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t apply to you. In just a couple weeks, however, you can get the low-down on the new requirements.
Click to get the specifics on JCAHO’s new stand on MRI safety…
Tags: audio, conference, EC, Environment of Care, JCAHO, Joint Commission, MRI, regulation, requirement, Resources, safety, seminar, standard, TJC, web, webinar
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