The 64 Slice CT Scanner: The Latest Battleground in Specialty Turf Disputes

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by Briefings on Credentialing

presented on December 22, 2006

Hospitals across the country are installing 64-slice computer tomography (CT) systems. This technology is now so advanced it can produce images sharp enough to be used as a diagnostic tool for cardiac angiography applications. Consequently, this emergence of digital imaging technology has brought about a struggle between cardiologists and radiologists around privileging, implementation, and revenue sharing issues.

Listen to HCPro for this audioconference where our expert speakers will help you to understand the complexities of implementing this technology, navigate turf battles, and determine the qualifications required for privileges in cardiac CT angiography interpretation.

At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to:

1. Describe appropriateness criteria for the use of cardiac CT
2. Indicate how this technology will affect various hospital services
3. Describe differing perspectives on the qualifications for reading coronary CT studies
4. Implement a strategy for addressing privileging disputes over cardiac CT usage
5. Formulate business models for procedural implementation and revenue sharing

AGENDA

• Using new CT technology in cardiac diagnosis
  • current market use of 64-slice cardiac CT
  • typical capabilities of scanners
  • current indications
  • should every hospital upgrade to 64-slice CT
  • anticipating disruption to current technologies
• Specialty perspectives on the implementation of 64-slice CT angiography
  • cardiology
  • radiology
• Privileging criteria advocated for the reading of cardiac CT angiography procedure
• Managing the turf battle
  • procedural approaches to privileging-resolving the dispute
  • interspecialty collaboration or competition
  • potential business models to bring multiple specialties together
• Q&A

FACULTY

Todd Sagin, MD, JD, Vice President and National Medical Director of The Greeley Company. He brings over 25 years of healthcare clinical, managerial, and legal experience to his work with physicians and hospitals across the United States. Dr. Sagin applies his medical, legal and executive expertise to help physicians and hospitals develop solutions to their most challenging problems. He has consulted, authored, and presented on a wide-range of healthcare management and legal topics including quality and performance management, credentialing and privileging, medical staff affairs, liability issues, and healthcare and legal trends.

U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston. At MUSC, Dr. Schoepf is the director of CT research and development and co-director of the Center for Advanced Imaging Research. His main scientific interest is the use of multi detector-row CT for detection of pulmonary embolism and coronary artery disease. On the editorial board of "Radiology" and the "Journal of Thoracic Imaging," Dr. Schoepf has also given more than 120 international lectures, and authored more than 100 abstracts and 80 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Timothy Albert, MD, an adult cardiologist sub-specializing in cardiovascular imaging. He has trained at the University of California, (San Francisco), University of Washington (Seattle), and Duke University, where he completed an adult cardiology fellowship and advanced training in cardiac imaging. Dr. Albert has been the primary author or co-author on over a dozen review articles, book chapters, and original scientific publications in the area of cardiac imaging, and has spoken on topics related to cardiac MRI and CT both nationally and internationally.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

• medical staff leaders and directors
• medical staff professionals
• CEOs
• COOs
• VPMAs
• credentialing professionals
• department directors of radiology and cardiology
• directors of cardiac catheterization labs
• radiologists
• cardiologists

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