Here are six things to know:
1. The technology will limit unnecessary advanced diagnostic imaging tests that heighten risk for patients and increase healthcare costs.
2. ImageSmart was designed during a Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation grant-funded project.
3. ImageSmart advances decision support, reduces patient-induced demand and holds providers accountable through reporting and feedback requirements.
4. Testing found that ImageSmart users order more appropriate tests or imaging alternatives almost 20 percent of the time.
5. The technology offers evidence-based guidelines from professional societies and delivers it to physicians.
6. ImageSmart also provides industry best practices, relative radiation exposure and procedure cost information.
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