Every healthcare accreditation organization promises some variation of the same two things, assurance of quality & assurance of safety. When it comes to either hospital / enterprise accreditation organizations (such as The Joint Commission [TJC] or DNV), or outpatient / MRI modality accreditation organizations (such as the American College of Radiology [ACR] or Intersocietal Accreditation […]
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MRI Safety and MRI Remote Operation
Our founder, Tobias Gilk, penned two articles on MRI system remote operation (HERE, from 2020 and HERE from 2022). The first one essentially said ‘MRI system remote operation is coming, and we’re not ready for it (MRI safety-wise).’ The second one says ‘it’s here, and we’re still not ready for it (MRI safety-wise).’ In a […]
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One of the challenges with new standards is that your site may have to scramble to adapt. If the new standard requires, for example, an MRI Safety Committee with quarterly meetings, and your site doesn’t have available / willing staff to take on this additional burden, you’re dead-in-the-water, right? Not necessarily. Since (the radiology equivalent […]
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