The MammoLoop magazine
Working notes for schedulers and practice managers who keep independent breast imaging and women's screening centers full and compliant.
practical guide
A step by step method for pulling a clean twelve month recall cohort out of a radiology information system, deduplicating patients, and staging the first outreach without double booking the schedule.
regulation and compliance
The federal rules on lay summaries, written result notification, timing windows and the tighter clock for suspicious findings, translated into the tasks that land on a scheduler's desk each week.
comparison
A side by side look at SMS, live phone outreach and printed letters for annual screening recall: what each costs per patient, what each requires for consent, and where each one earns the booking.
mistakes to avoid
The common handling errors that turn a single missed mammogram into a lost patient, and the recovery steps that pull her back onto the schedule within the same week.
numbers and benchmarks
How to calculate true throughput for a screening unit from exam time, room turnover, technologist availability and no show rate, so your template reflects the machine rather than wishful thinking.
checklist
A front desk checklist for diagnostic callback calls: what a scheduler may and may not say about results, how to book the visit quickly, and how to keep an anxious patient from canceling.
case study
A working account of how a two room breast imaging center rebuilt its recall process, reassigned scheduler time, and returned lapsed annual patients to the books over four quarters.
field report
An hour by hour account of the scheduler's day at an independent women's imaging center, from the morning callback list to the end of day reconciliation of arrivals and no shows.
trends and outlook
How shifting screening age recommendations, dense breast notification rules and supplemental imaging coverage debates are likely to reshape volume, slot mix and patient questions at independent centers.
Want the recall work handled between issues? Ask for a MammoLoop walkthrough of your own screening volume.
Almost every scheduling problem in an independent breast center traces back to a due list nobody trusts. Our guide to building an annual mammogram recall list shows how to pull, clean and stage one from the RIS you already have.
How do I set up an annual mammogram recall list when our RIS was never built for it?
Then work outward: the eight other pieces in Recall Room each take one part of it further, and every one links back here.
