2016 Annual Report Top Accomplishments

The College wins key successes throughadvocacyfor the future of radiology:

• Obtains private insurance coverage for CT colonography screening through the Affordable Care Act and strongly encourages Medicare to provide full coverage of this life-saving screening exam
• Decreases the 25% professional component multiple procedure payment reduction to 5% through passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016
• Ensures the flawed USPSTF mammography screening recommendations cannot be implemented prior to January 1, 2018
• Achieves reimbursement increases for mammography in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
• Continues to secure proper implementation of mandatory consultation of imaging appropriate use criteria enacted through the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014

• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approves the ACR as a “qualified Provider-Led Entity” to provide appropriate use criteria (AUC) under the Medicare Appropriate Use Criteria program for advanced diagnostic imaging
  • Medical providers may now consult ACR Appropriateness Criteria^® when ordering advanced diagnostic imaging for Medicare patients to fulfill Protecting Access to Medicare Act AUC requirements 
• To aid in ensuring uniformity of quality control (QC) testing, the Food and Drug Administration approves the ACR alternative standard request for mammography facilities to use the new Digital Mammography QC Manual and Digital Mammography QC Phantom in routine QC of digital equipment
• Image Wisely^® launches new online 2015 RSNA Annual Meeting Radiation Dose Exhibits feature

• Radiology Leadership Institute^®
  • Total enrollees grow by 15% to total 3,055
  • 102 leadership certificates are awarded across all levels
  • 10 residents receive scholarships to attend the 2016 Leadership Summit
• eLearning
  • Works collaboratively with ACR Quality and Safety to launch two new Image Wisely^® cases
  • Launches Lung Cancer Screening Education, selling 266 modules
  • Edward Sickles, MD, FACR, presents the second annual interactive Mammography Case Review session at ACR 2016
  • ACR Case in Point collaborates with Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS™) staff to educate ACR 2016 attendees on LI-RADS and pioneer the use of natural language processing in partnership with the Radiology Curriculum Management System team
  • 11,400 radiology professionals and residents register for ACR eLearning activities: 
    • ACR RADAR^® — 1,064 RADAR panels
    • Mammography Case Review — 446 MCR modules
    • RAD-PATH Dx — 9,678 RAD-PATH Dx cases
    • Diagnostic Radiology In-Training (DXIT™) and the Radiation Oncology In-Training (TXIT™) Exams
      • International participation in the DXIT in-training exam at an all-time high, increasing 34% over the last 4 years
      • Participation in the TXIT in-training exam reaches highest participation level since its inception with nearly 800 radiation oncology residents participating
    • Cardiac CT Certificate of Advanced Proficiency (CoAP) Exam
      • New CoAP exam launches as a two-hour, on-demand examination, offered at more than 850 testing centers worldwide
• Education Center
  • Welcomes over 1,350 new attendees with a return rate of more than 30%
  • Holds first-ever Breast Imaging Boot Camp in Saudi Arabia
• Continuous Professional Improvement (CPI)
  • Collaborates with RADPEER^® to provide educational self-assessments in required topic areas for RADPEER participants
  • CPI publishes 3 traditional self-assessment modules — genitourinary, breast, andultrasonography — and 3 special edition self-assessments — perinatal imaging, body MRI, and pediatric oncology imaging
  • 94% of CPI participants report that CPI self-assessments are relevant to their practice
• American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP^®)
  • Celebrates 5-year anniversary
  • International outreach reaches 18 countries in 5 continents
  • Collaborates with Thailand Radiology Society to offer lectures in Thailand 2 weeks a year

• ACR Career Center, the premiere job listings board in the profession, posts over 400 live jobs, more than doubling its new job postings over the past year
• A successful pilot study of four ACR communities leads to the development of a new ACR member benefit — Engage — providing resource tools and an open forum for networking, problem solving and surveying
• To strengthen ACR chapters through leadership and executive educational training, ACR Chapter Services adds Knowledge and Nosh as well as the Town Hall Meeting to further its ongoing efforts, which include the Chapter Leaders Advancement SerieS (CLASS) and the Chapter Leaders Workshop
• ACR flagship member website, acr.org, reaches 1.7 million annual visitors

• More than 2,000 attend the second ACR Annual Meeting for 5 days of advocacy, policy, economics and education 
• The ACR Resident and Fellow Section (RFS) hosts 453 members-in-training with dedicated RFS programming 
• 105 members are inducted as Fellows during the ACR 2016 Convocation Ceremony
• Participants claim 123.75 CME/SA-CME Credits through the ACR 2016 Virtual Meeting at 77 sessions 
• ACR collaborates with 10 societies to develop education content 
• Over 120 abstracts are accepted in the fields of advocacy, economics and health policy, clinical education, informatics and innovations, leadership, and quality and safety

• ACR members stay informed about key events at ACR 2016 with 4 issues of the ACR Bulletin Special ACR 2016 Update 
• Julianna M. Czum, MD — the first Bruce J. Hillman Fellow in Scholarly Publishing — starts as curator of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) Blog

• JACR sponsors a hackathon for physicians, IT specialists and patients designed to improve patient access to the medical peer-reviewed literature and content experts in health care