Augmenting the Impact of Technology Adoption With Financial Incentive to Improve Radiology Report Signature Times

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 198-204

  Andriole, Katherine P ^a,b,c   Prevedello, Luciano M ^a,b,c   Dufault, Allen ^a,b   Pezeshk, Parham ^a,b   Bransfield, Robert ^a,b   Hanson, Richard ^a,b   Doubilet, Peter M ^b,c   Seltzer, Steven E ^b,c   Khorasani, Ramin ^a,b,c  

^a Center for Evidence Based Imaging   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

imaging informatics; Report signature times; speech recognition report generation; technology adoption; turnaround times

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; RADIOLOGIST; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84928096372     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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