Effectively collaborating to advance patient outcomes is complicated – it requires a shared understanding of the problem, a common process for improvement and a universal way to measure performance. The ACR Learning Network is a community of organizations who collaborate to solve global problems in radiology, support each other and learn from one another throughout the improvement journey.
To prepare to join the Learning Network, organizations participate in ImPower, a program that combines quality improvement (QI) education with the direct application of QI tools to projects, so your interdisciplinary team becomes an analytical problem-solving machine. Each ImPower cohort offers different improvement collaboratives, each guided by collaborative committees, quality improvement leaders and clinical subject matter experts.
These are the ImPower improvement collaboratives and their goals:
- Lung Cancer Screening: to improve early detection of lung cancer through screening
- Mammography Positioning: to improve breast cancer detection through screening
- Prostate MR Image Quality: to improve clinically significant prostate cancer detection and localization
- Recommendations Follow-up: to improve early detection of lung cancer for incidentally detected pulmonary nodules
Two new improvement collaboratives will be added in 2025:
- CT Dose Optimization: to optimize doses for particular types of CT exams across the continuum of patient size
- Mammography Health Equity: to improve mammography screening percentages in AHRQ priority population
