Radiology Business September 24, 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is highlighting radiology’s critical role in striving for “hospital diagnostic excellence.”
DxEx, as the CDC calls it for short, encompasses practices to improve this process, ensuring that imaging and other tests are ordered, interpreted, communicated and acted on appropriately. The agency worked to create this new “Core Elements of Hospital Diagnostic Excellence” document in consultation with federal partners, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and CMS.
Experts noted that these programs help providers to prioritize the right diagnoses, engage the correct stakeholders, implement improvement strategies and continuously monitor change.
“A DxEx program may also lead to cost savings through more efficient care,” the CDC reported Sept. 17. “Programs require leadership...
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