The ACR Learning Network is a community of organizations who are leading the way in solving global problems in radiology and sharing learnings based on their improved performance. ImPower is the quality improvement (QI) program that uses a collaborative learning model to support the ongoing development of the ACR Learning Network. In ImPower, multidisciplinary project teams are taught structured QI and guided in effectively applying that methodology to their improvement projects.

Organizations are grouped by different focus areas into improvement collaboratives, where together they develop a shared understanding of a common problem, implement improvement-driven measures, and establish best practices. Six improvement collaboratives utilize established objectives: Recommendations Follow-up, Mammography Positioning, Mammography Health Equity, Lung Cancer Screening, Prostate MR Image Quality and CT Dose Optimization. A seventh improvement collaborative, the General Improvement Group, is how organizations can bring a challenge of their own choosing through ImPower.

Join ImPower to collaborate with peer institutions, develop physician QI leaders, improve staff engagement, strengthen internal and external relationships, publish your improvement project and build an organizational foundation for effective problem solving. 

Resources

Learn how organizations have benefited from participating.

The first wave of ImPower participants blazed a trail for every team that’s followed in their footsteps — read about their teams and accomplishments.

The second cohort of ImPower refined collaborative aims and benefited from shared learnings between cohorts.

East Alabama Medical Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and Woman's Hospital leveraged ImPower. Watch now

Ensure appropriate recommendations for indeterminate pulmonary nodules — watch video.

Testimonials

Hear from past participants in ImPower

We were basically sending our team to a graduate school learning class [ImPower], and they learned a methodology that we could apply anywhere throughout our practice.

Richard J. Friedland, MD, FACR

Radiologist

Hudson Valley Radiologists, PC

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The breakthrough wasn’t just the technology, it was the relationships we built — with our frontline staff, radiologists and with Inflo Health. That’s what really drove the change.

Mary Carter Gilbert, RN

Clinical Outcomes Coordinator

East Alabama Medical Center 

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RSNA QI Awards

2024

Ryan Ward, MD

S3A-QI-6 Improving Prostate MRI Quality

2023

Erin Panter

R2-QI-9HC Improving Lung Cancer Screening Utilization

2023

Chirag R. Parghi

T5B-QI-6 Improving Mammography Positioning at Two Community Mammography Centers by Asking Why