Majority
Of Attachments No Longer Required
With Every Application Submission
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the April 2007 issue |
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Beginning
with the August 1, 2007 application deadline, laboratories will
no longer submit the following attachments as part of their
applications for accreditation or reaccreditation:
- Medical
licenses for all physicians
- Credential
cards for all sonographers
- Policy
for the method and frequency for replenishing emergency supplies
- Infectious
disease policy
- Transducer
cleaning policy
- Policy
for handling acute medical emergencies
- Maintenance
agreements for all ultrasound equipment
- Patient
assessment and monitoring policies and forms for Stress and
TEE
- Conscious
sedation policy for TEE
- TEE
transducer cleaning policy
- Continuing
Medical Education (CME) documentation
In
lieu of requiring all laboratories to submit these attachments,
the ICAEL will randomly audit a statistically valid percentage
of the applications received each quarter and require ONLY that
select group to submit the documentation. Laboratories randomly
selected to submit the attachments will receive notification
via certified mail, addressed to the Medical and Technical Directors
of the laboratory. Subsequently, the selected laboratories will
be given 45 days to return the required attachments to the ICAEL
office for review. Failure by the laboratory to provide the
ICAEL with the documentation within the 45 days of such request
during the accreditation review process will result in postponement
of the accreditation decision.
To
continue to ensure the integrity of the accreditation program,
the Medical Director of each applicant laboratory will be required
to sign, and have notarized, the Random Audit Acknowledgment/Consent
document, agreeing to maintain accurate and current documentation
in a file on site at all times, in a manner that is consistent
with any reasonable policies and procedures established by the
ICAEL. In addition, by signing the Random Audit Acknowledgment/Consent,
the laboratory's Medical Director will be providing consent
for the laboratory to be audited at any time.
The
signed and notarized Random Audit Acknowledgment/Consent is
required with each application submission and can be downloaded
from the ICAEL website at www.icael.org/icael/pdfs/randomaudit.rtf.
The
ICAEL Board of Directors adopted this new policy to make both
the application and review processes more efficient for applicant
laboratories, as well as for the inhouse and peer reviewers.
Any questions about this new policy should be directed to the
ICAEL at 800-838-2110 or by email, using the online staff directory
published at www.icael.org.
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