Revision History
Whether you have a specific question regarding Ultrasound accreditation, or need comprehensive information to help you prepare your application, this page will be useful in providing links to all articles relevant to the Ultrasound accreditation process. Click on a button below to find the articles most relevant to your needs.
Submitting/Managing Your Application and Testing Package
Information about the application process, registration and payment
- Registering with ACRedit
- Information Needed for Your Application
- Time Requirements
- Managing Your Modalities in ACRedit
- Resetting Your Password or Login
- Adding a new/replacement or loaner unit or withdrawing a unit in ACRedit
- Mobile Unit Multi-Site Policy
- Units for Emergency Use
- Changes in Facility, Personnel, Modality
- 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
- General Personnel Requirements: Supervising Physicians
- Interpreting Physician: Ultrasound
- Sonographer/Technologist: Ultrasound
Forms
Links to Forms Relevant to Ultrasound Accreditation
- Administrative:
- DMAP Login Change Request Form
- DMAP Ownership Change/Modality ID Designation Form
- Consumer Complaint Notice to Patients
- QC:
- Ultrasound/Breast Ultrasound Equipment Annual Survey Summary
- Prepare for Site Visits:
- Toolkit for Validation Site Surveys (MIPPA)
- Toolkit for Validation Site Surveys (Non-MIPPA)
- CME/Continuing Experience Record for Physicians
- CME/Continuing Experience Record for Medical Physicists/MR Scientists
- CEU Record for Technologists
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 |
| 10/13/2021 | Removed QA Questionnaire form | |