A series of technology-enabled quality improvement initiatives reduced additional imaging recommendations by 44% at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital, according to a study published June 3 in Radiology.  The interventions were aimed at improving the efficiency and actionability of additional imaging recommendations at Brigham and Women’s Hospital over an eight-year period. Imaging data associated with the interventions was compared to data from Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital — representing the national standard of practice — for the same time period. 

Here are five notes from the study:

A total of 7,502,521 radiology reports of 1,323,459 patients from January 2015 to December 2022 were included in the study. Of those, 3,608,977 came from Brigham and Women’s — the st

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