Understanding CMS Radiation Dose Quality Measures for 2025: Supporting Compliance with Bayer and Alara

Jessica Mitchell is a Product Director of Operational Analytics for the Radiology - Digital Solutions Business at Bayer. Over the past 10 years Jessica has focused her efforts on bringing dose management software to healthcare organization across the US, and around the globe. Her passion for Global Health quality measures is founded in ensuring healthcare providers are providing patients the right care at the right time, while ensuring that care meets today’s quality standards.   

With over 20 years of radiology experience, Josh arrived at Alara to commercialize the gateway solution for CMS measure computation and future use cases.  Having worked for Philips Healthcare and Cortechs.ai, Josh understands the need for radiology data to be secured, protected, and work under the modern framework that Alara has designed.   Josh previously managed a global radiology AI business that spanned 30+ countries and 1200 clinical sites.

Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman has published over 160 peer reviewed publications, cited 21,700 times, with many articles focused on approaches to optimize the radiation doses used for CT across physicians and hospitals.  Dr. Smith-Bindman has testified before the US Congress, Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health  in 2010  (Medical Radiation: An overview of the Issues and again in 2012 (The Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, The Care Bill.) The focus on her testimony was on the need to enact standards for CT scanning to reduce the harms associated with excessive radiation doses.  In 2019, Dr. Smith-Bindman was awarded a $5M cooperative agreement with CMS to develop a CT quality measure to reduce excessive radiation dose.  Dr. Smith-Bindman is a Co-founder of Alara Imaging, which was created to build