Quality of Practice Tactics
- Increase the development and dissemination of clinical guidance documents, including appropriate use criteria.
- Develop appropriate use criteria and procedure standards for NM/MI scans, therapies, and other procedures.
- Collaborate with clinical decision support mechanism vendors to ensure proper implementation of AUC.
- Develop educational materials for AUC dissemination.
- Develop and implement a communication plan to inform and educate members about AUCs.
- Ensure the development of value/quality metrics for nuclear medicine.
- Identify existing appropriate quality measures (outcomes and processes) for nuclear medicine and develop new measures, if applicable.
- Take the lead in developing quality measures in therapy.
- Develop standard survey templates for patient reported outcomes measures.
- Explore the development of white paper on the value of nuclear medicine and the availability (or lack thereof) of quality measures in collaboration with other relevant organizations.
- Explore collaborative clinical data registry development.
- Promote greater understanding of radiation levels and its medical benefits to the public and medical field.
- Develop relevant educational materials for members by identifying the existing gaps.
- Improve the quality of nuclear medicine by standardizing best practices to enhance operational efficiency.
- Streamline collaborative guideline development with other organizations.
- Review the composition and mandates of the relevant SNMMI committees and develop roadmap for the upcoming quality initiatives.
- Develop Procedure Standards for all newly approved tracers and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.
- Standardize the format for development and dissemination of procedure standards.
- Develop templates for structured patient reports.
- Explore SNMMI accreditation of nuclear medicine and therapy centers.
- Develop Health Economic models on novel radiopharmaceuticals.
- Establish SNMMI Health Services Research Center.
- Expand continuing education options for practitioners.
- Provide a range of educational opportunities to help nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists develop practice competency and expertise in state-of-the-art nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, and radionuclide therapy.
- Develop and deliver training modules for novel radiopharmaceuticals.
- Develop joint training programs and educational content with other specialties.
- Facilitate new service lines in nuclear medicine clinical settings.
- Identity novel ways to increase volume of nuclear medicine/molecular imaging scans, therapies, and other procedures.
- Educate nuclear medicine physicians and other colleagues.
- Develop roadmaps for the nuclear medicine clinic of the future.
- Improve recognition of the value of nuclear medicine with radiology practice.
- Forge alliances with radiology community to encourage greater understanding of, and obtain infrastructural support for nuclear medicine/molecular imaging training and practice.