ACR white paper on teleradiology practice: a report from the Task Force on Teleradiology Practice

Abstract

Teleradiology services are now embedded into the workflow of many radiology practices in the United States, driven largely by an expanding corporate model of services. This has brought opportunities and challenges to both providers and recipients of teleradiology services and has heightened the need to create best-practice guidelines for teleradiology to ensure patient primacy. To this end, the ACR Task Force on Teleradiology Practice has created this white paper to update the prior ACR communication on teleradiology and discuss the current and possible future state of teleradiology in the United States. This white paper proposes comprehensive best-practice guidelines for the practice of teleradiology, with recommendations offered regarding future actions.

Keywords: Quality of care; business standards of practice; disintermediation; end-user standards; patient primacy; regulatory issues; technology; teleradiologist; teleradiology; teleradiology company.