“The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” – George Bernard Shaw

Communication cannot be an illusion if health care organizations are to meet important patient safety goals. Join leading experts as they discuss issues associated with problematic communication and propose possible solutions, focusing on the concept of communication as a series of closed-loop cycles between patient clinical providers, technologists, and radiologists.

Faculty:
Paul Chang, MD, FSIIM; University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine

Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH; Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Nabile Safdar, MD; University of Maryland School of Medicine

Objectives:

1. Discuss issues associated with problematic communication and describe proposed solutions.

2. Examine the concept of communication as a series of closed loop cycles between patients, clinical providers, technologists and radiologists.