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Digital diagnostic imaging

Key resources:

• RACS Digitial Diagnostic Imaging Guidelines (PDF 300.87Kb)
  The guidelines were created by the College's multi-disciplinary working party to assist surgeons and clinicians in the transition period.
  

• RACS Position Statement on Digital Imaging (2007) (PDF 10.5Kb)
  
• Consensus Statement: Managing the Transition to Digital Diagnostic (PDF 43.3Kb)
  The statement was a result of a large multi-disciplinary forum held at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons on 12 June 2008.  The forum was in response to a discussion paper from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing seeking feedback on the transition process.
  
• RACS open letter (PDF 645Kb)
  
• Quality Use of Diagnostic Imaging (QUDI) Program
  The QUDI Program is an initiative of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. It addresses the issues particular to quality service provision in diagnostic imaging.
• RANZCR Digital Imaging webpage
  Australian Diagnostic Imaging Association
  
• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
  
• Surgical News Article (October 2008)

Digital Imaging RACS Working Party

The College has established a Digital Imaging RACS Working Party (DIRWP) to develop and review guidelines for the transition to digital imaging and advise Australian governments, providers, clinicians, hospitals and funding authorities on current and progressive minimum standards for diagnostic imaging with a patient care focus.

The Chair of the Digital Imaging RACS Working Party is Dr Bernie Bourke, FRACS.  Membership of the Working Party is composed of representatives from the Australian Diagnostic Imaging Association, the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Orthopaedic Association, the Australian Private Hospitals Association, the Divisional Group of Rural Surgery, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists and the Spine Society of Australia.

Email the Working Party.