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ICSI brought together clinicians, radiologists, health plans and patients to develop an approach that enables clinicians to order appropriate high-tech diagnostic imaging scans while with the patient. Learn how this approach improved patient health, saved an estimated $234 million in Minnesota, and is supporting the use of “decision-support” to order scans nationally.
The ICSI HTDI Collaborative is committed to using American College of Radiology (ACR) criteria as a base for appropriateness criteria in decision support.
How ICSI developed a decision-support approach for ordering medical imaging scans, and the current status of this initiative are described in this document.
Five large medical groups tested the use of decision support for ordering high-tech diagnostic imaging scans. Learn why they continue to use decision support after the pilot ended.
Research indicates higher quality imaging scans are ordered using decision support, and also shows the value of implementing a standardized system of electronic decision support to order high-tech diagnostic imaging scans. View research.
This chart shows how decision-support and prior notification practices affected the number of high-tech diagnostic imaging scans ordered in Minnesota from 2007-2012.
Using decision support to order diagnostic imaging scans benefits individual clinicians, clinics and medical groups. Read more.
Examples of health trade media coverage of ICSI’s decision-support initiative. View coverage