| Measuring Radiology's Value in Time Saved. | |
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PMID: 23025865 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Because radiology has historically not measured its added value to patient care and thus not communicated it in easily understood terms to all stakeholders, the specialty must correct this to prepare for the eventual transition from the current fee-for-service payment schedule to new value-based reimbursement systems. Given the increasing risk for marginalization, radiologists need to engage clinicians and managers to map the processes and associated costs of episodes of patient care to identify areas for providing and improving integrated diagnostic information and to measure the value thereof. In such time-driven, activity-based costing practices, radiologists should highlight how proper investments in the information generated by imaging and how radiologists' associated consultative and coordination of services can save greater resources downstream, especially in the nonrenewable resource of physician time, an increasingly scarce health care resource. Using physician time in the most efficient way will be a key element for decreasing health care costs at the aggregate level. Therefore, expressing radiology's contribution in terms of downstream physician time saved is a metric that can be easily understood by all stakeholders. In a conceptual framework centered on value, the specialty of radiology must focus more on its most important product, actionable information, rather than on imaging technologies themselves. Information, unlike imaging technologies, does not depreciate with time but rather increases in value the more it is used. |
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Christoph I Lee; Dieter R Enzmann |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR Volume: 9 ISSN: 1558-349X ISO Abbreviation: J Am Coll Radiol Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-02 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101190326 Medline TA: J Am Coll Radiol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 713-7 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2012 American College of Radiology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington. Electronic address: stophlee@gmail.com. |
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