The Challenges, Opportunities, and Imperative of Structured Reporting in Medical Imaging

Despite dramatic innovation in medical imaging and information system technologies, the radiology report has remained stagnant for more than a century. Structured reporting was created in the hopes of addressing well-documented deficiencies in report content and organization but has largely failed in its adoption due to concerns over workflow and productivity. A number of political, economical, and clinical quality-centric initiatives are currently taking place within medicine which will dramatically change the medical landscape including Pay for Performance, Evidence-Based Medicine, and the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. These will collectively enhance efforts to improve quality in reporting, stimulate new technology development, and counteract the impending threat of commoditization within radiology. Structured reporting offers a number of unique opportunities and advantages over traditional free text reporting and will provide a means for the radiology community to add value to its most important service deliverable the radiology report.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of digital imaging

• Publication date

  2009-10-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s10278-009-9239-zPMID 19816742PMCID 2782125
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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