"...In spite of the challenges, there are multiple benefits to radiation-dose reduction, monitoring, and management. “They are going to allow you to offer information to referring clinicians to help improve the way they have referred, and they are going to be used, within your departments, to improve the way you image, treat, and deal with patients throughout the end-to-end health-care flow,” Judd says. “They will also allow you to optimize the use of your equipment and will lead to better quality assurance and bigger improvements in how your organization is perceived.”

"A dose management solution is an effective tool for automatically collecting, monitoring and providing easy access to dose information, which is necessary for follow-up of a hospital’s progress in reducing dose levels. Comparing average dose levels is fundamental when identifying the magnitude of reductions needed in radiation dose levels and to provide a benchmark against which the effectiveness of reduction efforts can be measured [8]. A dose management solution should continuously communicate the performance data on dose reduction from as many stages of the Imaging Cycle (see Figure) as possible, which will then act as a basis for further training of staff.

Information about dose reduction should then be communicated at all levels of the Imaging Cycle. To be able to provide feedback to staff and facilitate the change in routines, a number of different hospital IT systems need to be integrated with the dose management solution including for example the hospital’s EHR and PACS. "

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