EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--()--Radiology Partners (RP), a leading radiology practice in the U.S. through its owned and affiliated practices, is advancing patient care by sharing evidence-based best practices, educational tools and clinically-focused resources to support the delivery of high-quality patient care across the specialty.

“Throughout 2024, our Clinical Value Team focused on opportunities for broad contributions to the specialty—a meaningful example of how we continue to transform radiology beyond our practice,” said Dr. Krishna Nallamshetty, Chief Medical Officer at RP. “The delivery of high-quality patient care is always our top priority, and we have a unique opportunity to harness the expertise of our radiologists and the innovative clinical technology solutions developed by RP to advance best practices resources for all radiologists in varying patient care settings.”

In support of its mission to transform radiology, RP is developing and sharing education tools with the radiology community with the aim of positively impacting healthcare delivery. These open-access clinical resources include the Rad to Rad Learning series and Clinical Pathway resources.

“Our Clinical Value Team is the ultimate advocate for patients, radiologists and the specialty, combining clinical expertise, innovative technology-driven processes and actionable data insights to elevate care,” said Rich Whitney, RP CEO and Board Chair. “The open-access resources developed and deployed throughout 2024 reflect our unwavering commitment to advancing quality care, fostering collaboration and delivering tangible value across the healthcare system—bringing our mission to life in a meaningful way.”

Current RP open-access clinical resources include:

  • Rad to Rad Learning Series: Throughout 2024, RP published 11 Rad to Rad Learning resources. These case-based learning modules include brief, focused tips from RP experts designed to offer practical insights on exams radiologists encounter in day-to-day practice. Rad to Rad Learning cases are shared across RP’s network of 3,900 radiologists and externally across social media channels to ensure accessibility across the entire specialty to elevate care delivery.
  • Best Practices for Breast Biopsy Clips: RP’s national subspecialty division for breast radiology created best practice guidance for breast biopsy clips. This resource includes guidelines for breast biopsy clip documentation, a breast clip education handout for patients and clip shape resources.
  • The Clinical Evaluation of AI Models: Introducing RP’s Five-Step Validation Process: RP’s AI experts created a five-step validation process for evaluating AI models. This comprehensive framework ensures the AI models RP deploys are deemed reliable and trustworthy by radiologists, enhance radiologists’ workflows and provide advanced insights to radiologists to further clinical quality and patient care. This clinical resource contains a summary outlining the five steps and corresponding video presentation describing these steps in further detail for fellow radiologists.
  • Best Practices for Neonatal Urinary Tract Dilation: Based on published data and consensus papers, RP’s national subspecialty division for pediatric radiology developed practical guidance for neonatal urinary tract dilation (UTD) with clear follow-up instructions for patients and referring clinicians, as well as a summary one-pager and sample radiology report template. The UTD classification system creates a standardized approach to evaluating the pediatric kidney and communicating the findings to the referring care team, helping improve patient care.
  • Practical Guidelines for Acute Stroke Care: Drawing from existing guidelines and the extensive expertise of the national subspecialty division for neuroradiology, RP released a Neuroradiology and Stroke Clinical Pathway, which offers practical guidance for acute stroke care. This Clinical Pathway offers operational insights for the entire stroke team, a triage checklist for nurses, imaging checklists for technologists and tips for interpreting radiologists.
  • Power of Collaboration: Revolutionizing Radiology Reports for Referring Physicians: To better serve referring physicians, RP redefined the delivery of radiology reports by creating and implementing report formats that better reflect the preferences of referring physicians. The practice utilized its network of radiologists to gather feedback, then deployed a set of three sample reports to nearly 600 referring clinicians across the country and asked them to rate the reports by: 1) Appearance, 2) Formatting, and 3) Satisfaction of the detail level included. From the feedback garnered, RP was able to pinpoint the report of preference for referring physicians and offers it as a free resource on the website today.

2024 marked the beginning for RP’s public clinical resources offerings. The practice will continue advancing its mission through the development and deployment of educational resources at scale, establishing best practices and building value across the specialty.

About Radiology Partners

Radiology Partners, through its owned and affiliated practices, is a leading radiology practice in the U.S., serving more than 3,400 hospitals and other healthcare facilities with high quality radiology, technology and artificial intelligence solutions. As a physician-led and physician-owned practice, our mission is to transform radiology by innovating across clinical value, technology, service and economics, while elevating the role of radiology and radiologists in healthcare. Using a proven healthcare services model, Radiology Partners provides consistent, high-quality care to patients, while delivering enhanced value to the hospitals, clinics, imaging centers and referring physicians we serve. Learn more at radpartners.com and connect with us at @Rad_Partners.