Accreditation is required to assure safety In the United States, either enterprise or modality accreditation is required for eligibility for reimbursement for services provided to Medicare, Medicaid, or Tricare federal beneficiaries. As a result, it is estimated that over 90% of all MRI providing hospitals and imaging centers in the US hold accreditations that cover […]
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2021: The Year of MRI Safety
While the idea of MRI safety should be a priority every year, 2021 provides us with a special opportunity to reflect. As mentioned in a previous post, 2021 is the twentieth anniversary of the most infamous MRI accident in the United States: the death of young Michael Colombini. On this twentieth anniversary it’s appropriate to […]
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In order to recognize MRI safety weaknesses at any given site, you have to study how MRI accidents and injuries occur. Anybody with a printout of accreditation standards can be a mock-surveyor and run through a checklist, but does that person know if the checklist really represents MRI safety risks, or just check-boxes? This year, […]
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If there’s a concern about the interpretation of an MRI study, of course you’d call on an expert witness in radiologic interpretation… a radiologist. But what if there’s a question about how MRI safety processes worked (or didn’t work) in terms of preventing an injury (like a flying object zipping at the MRI scanner, and […]
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