Lifespan in Providence, RI, will share its experiences with the software in this Tuesday afternoon scientific session presentation. Researchers will describe how they worked with a company (Insight Health Solutions, East Providence, RI) to develop a system that would meet their needs, said presenter Dr. Jonathan Movson.
The institution installed and evaluated the firm's commercially available peer review software, RadiologyInsight, between November 1, 2008, and April 1, 2009. The system randomly assigns cases to be overread by radiologists in a particular group based on their subspecialty as part of the QA process.
In the study period, 1,437 cases were randomly selected and distributed by the computer algorithm to the reviewing radiologists. To distribute the cases evenly between overreaders and to match procedure codes with the correct overreader group, adjustments initially had to be made to the categories and groups, according to the authors.
After these changes were made, however, every case was correctly assigned to the right group. Ultimately, 1,143 overreads were completed.
"The development of this software was not without its problems and challenges, but we are satisfied with the outcome and feel that this sets a new standard for the overread process," Movson said.
