Join the nation’s top program for performance improvement in radiology and tap into your team’s unlimited potential.
To prepare to join the Learning Network, your organization starts by participating in ImPower. There, your team learns and applies quality improvement tools, earns continuing education (CE) credits and collaborates with peer institutions.
All improvement collaboratives are led and supported by ACR® staff, Quality Improvement leaders, and collaborative committees.
Identify and evaluate opportunities to increase utilization of LCS programs.
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Improve early detection of lung cancer for incidentally detected pulmonary nodules.
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Improve clinically significant prostate cancer detection and localization.
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Improve breast cancer detection through optimized mammography positioning.
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Recognizing facilities demonstrating sustained high-quality outcomes in specific ACR Learning Network improvement collaborative measures.
Achieve your goal to deliver high-quality, safety-oriented care. The ImPower program guides project teams in learning and applying quality improvement skills, so that together, we can continue to improve patient outcomes.
Select local team members, define the project scope and gain consensus on the collaborative measure(s).
Conduct a thorough current state analysis at your facility and identify the core issues that are leading to the problem.
Identify project sub-goals that directly address your facility's core issues.
Develop specific solutions that address your key drivers and test those solutions using PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles.
Validate the impact of your interventions with data, continue to refine interventions and focus on high-reliability solutions.
Once your application is submitted, a member of the Learning Network team will reach out to the applicant with next steps.
Complete the online application today! Once your application is submitted, a member of the ACR Learning Network team will reach out to the individual listed as the primary contact in the application to coordinate the next steps.
Have questions about the application? Submit a ticket to the ACR Learning Network team.
ImPower delivers department-wide benefits above and beyond other approaches to quality improvement. You gain robust support and a structured curriculum to guide your team through quality improvement in the areas that matter most to you.
After completing your ImPower project, your organization can leverage the ImPower methodology and your staff’s QI skills to tackle other institutional challenges.
The first wave of ImPower participants blazed a trail for every team that’s followed in their footsteps — and had plenty to say about it.
Learn all about itThe second ImPower cohort solidified best practices and helped the Learning Network build momentum.
Read their recordThis webinar captures the voices and experiences of the first groups of ImPower participants.
Watch the recordingEast Alabama Medical Center sees 74% increase in pulmonary nodule follow-up completion rates with the ACR ImPower Program and its technology partners.
Learn moreInitial results from the ACR Prostate MR Image Quality Improvement Collaborative
Read the results in JACRA multicenter improvement program within a Learning Network framework
Read the results in JACRACR Learning Network Vendor Partners offer software tools and solutions relevant to projects of facility teams in ACR's ImPower program, and are willing to participate in ImPower alongside their facility clients to support facility needs.
Get the inside information on the Learning Network with answers to the most frequently asked questions.
We’re here to help your team succeed. Please reach out with any questions to the ACR Learning Network team.
