Revision History
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Accreditation Overview
General Information about the ACR and Accreditation
- Introduction to the ACR
- What is ACR Accreditation?
- Benefits of ACR Accreditation
- Marketing Your Accreditation
- The Accreditation Process: Mammography
- Questions about Accreditation?
- The Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA)
- Contact ACR Accreditation
- Fees and Payments
- How to Submit Payment
- Browser Compatibility and System Requirements
Submitting/Managing Your Application and Testing Package
Information about the application process, registration and payment
- Registering with ACRedit
- Information Needed for Your Application: Mammography
- Time Requirements: Mammography
- Managing Your Modalities in ACRedit
- Resetting Your Password or Login
- Adding a New, Replacement, Repaired, Loaner or Demo Unit, or Withdrawing a Unit in ACRedit
- Mobile Mammography
- Changes in Facility, Units, Personnel: Mammography
- Testing Package and Image Submission Overview
- Image Submission: Upload with ACRedit Web Client
- Image Submission: Upload with TRIAD Windows Client
Personnel
Required personnel documentation and qualifications
- General Personnel Requirements
- General Personnel Requirements: Documentation of Experience
- General Personnel Requirements: Documentation of Continuing Education
- General Personnel Requirements: International Medical Graduates
- Lead Interpreting Physician: Mammography
- Interpreting Physician: Mammography
- Radiologic Technologist: Mammography
- Medical Physicist: Mammography
Forms
Links to Forms Relevant to Mammography Accreditation
- Administrative:
- Login Change Request Form
- VHA Mammography Facilities Letter
- Personnel:
- Radiologist Qualifications
- Medical Physicist Qualifications
- Radiologic Technologist Qualifications
- MQSA Personnel Requirements
- Testing:
- Mammography Clinical Image Review Sheet
- Mammography Testing Packet Checklist
- Test Image Data Form
- QC Forms:
- Technologist Quality Control Forms
- Medical Physicist Evaluation Forms
Centers of Excellence
Further information on how to be designated a Center of Excellence
- Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence (BICOE)
- Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellence (DICOE)
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Governance
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Personnel
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Facility Organization and Management
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Physical Environment
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Equipment
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Radiation and General Safety
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Quality Management
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Patient Rights
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Medical Records
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Infection Control
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Communication
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Utilization Review and Appropriateness of Services
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Emergency Services
- Lung Cancer Screening Centers of Excellence
Revision History for this Article | ||
Date | Section | Description of Revision(s) |
12-12-19 | All | Article created; FAQs incorporated; No criteria changes |
| 01-22-20 | Forms | Added Mammography Clinical Image Review Sheet |