What are the goals of the diagnostic imaging management program?
• Promoting and guiding the selection of the most appropriate and cost-effective diagnostic imaging services • Encouraging standardization of medical practice patterns and reducing variation in clinical evaluation • Curtailing the performance of inappropriate diagnostic imaging studies • Advocating biosafety issues, including reduction of clinical radiation exposure (for CT and plain film radiography) • Enhancing quality of health care for diagnostic imaging studies using evidence-based medicine and outcomes research from numerous resources