Ensuring quality with patient simulators
June 19, 2013
From the June 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
By utilizing the unique aspects of a patient simulator, facilities can generate qualitative and quantitative data showing the efforts they make to maintain and improve quality of patient care. Such efforts are important for accreditation and reimbursement.
The SNMMI patient simulator program can be utilized to receive practice accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). To receive accreditation, facilities must participate in one quality improvement activity annually from each of the following areas: administrative quality, technical quality and physician performance (also known as interpretive quality). Facilities that choose to participate in a patient simulator program meet both the technical and physician performance requirements for the IAC for that year.
By using a nuclear medicine patient simulator, participants receive firsthand experience in quality control assessment and document their efforts in this regard. Most importantly, the patient simulator provides hospitals and other imaging facilities with a peace-of mind that their patients are getting the best care possible.
The SNMMI patient simulators are developed, distributed and graded by the Quality Assurance Committee.
About the author: Kent Friedman, MD, is a board-certified nuclear medicine physician. He currently serves as nuclear medicine section chief in the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Medical Center. His research primarily focuses on further development of hybrid multimodality molecular imaging techniques to predict and assess treatment response in cancer. He is also the chair of the Quality Assurance Committee.
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By utilizing the unique aspects of a patient simulator, facilities can generate qualitative and quantitative data showing the efforts they make to maintain and improve quality of patient care. Such efforts are important for accreditation and reimbursement.
The SNMMI patient simulator program can be utilized to receive practice accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). To receive accreditation, facilities must participate in one quality improvement activity annually from each of the following areas: administrative quality, technical quality and physician performance (also known as interpretive quality). Facilities that choose to participate in a patient simulator program meet both the technical and physician performance requirements for the IAC for that year.
By using a nuclear medicine patient simulator, participants receive firsthand experience in quality control assessment and document their efforts in this regard. Most importantly, the patient simulator provides hospitals and other imaging facilities with a peace-of mind that their patients are getting the best care possible.
The SNMMI patient simulators are developed, distributed and graded by the Quality Assurance Committee.
About the author: Kent Friedman, MD, is a board-certified nuclear medicine physician. He currently serves as nuclear medicine section chief in the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Medical Center. His research primarily focuses on further development of hybrid multimodality molecular imaging techniques to predict and assess treatment response in cancer. He is also the chair of the Quality Assurance Committee.
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