RIS Radiology Information System

 

DCM RIS is a complete and affordable web-based radiology management solution. It addresses the needs of any imaging department and cover billing, distribution and management planning as well. DCM RIS is designed to increase operational efficiency from scheduler, administrative staff, technicians, radiologists, and the management team. DCM RIS eliminates double or triple entry on patient information; it is entered once and accessed throughout the entire exam process.  It provides data to allow the management team to do business planning and forecast.

 

The Advantages of an Affordable RIS
PACS lowers operating costs, significantly eliminating the need for film. Although the value of RIS system is not nearly as obvious, a properly implemented RIS solution will provide significant value to a radiology facility.

A few benefits of a properly implemented RIS system are increases operational efficiency, exam revenues, insurance collections, physician referrals, and improved patient care while reducing human error, labor requirements, and postage costs.

 


PROCESS


SCHEDULING

  • Automatically suggests available exams times, single or multiple exams.
  • Shows exam schedule in daily, weekly and monthly view
  • Ensures that all necessary demographic and billing information is acquired prior to exam.
  • Guarantees that insurance approval is acquired prior to exam.

 

REGISTRATION

  • Upon arrival RIS worklist and modality worklist is updated with most recent patient exam requirements.
  • Exams tracked across process in single worklist providing exam access and current status.
  • Document Scanning.

 

BILLING

  • Shows daily, monthly and yearly  transactions
  • Provides data from all modality f outpatient and in-patient activity
  • Information automatically populated by RIS system.
  • Built in interface via standard HL7 interface language.
  • Immediate printing of receipt

 

TECHNOLOGIST

  • Functional patient notes are communicated from front desk relating relevant exam information (I.E. sensitivities, allergies, patient size, fear factors, history of claustrophobia, etc.)
  • Eliminates entry data into modality.
  • Eliminates reconciliation of exams in RIS to PACS.
  • Track patient ‘s status

 

RADIOLOGIST

  • Immediately updates Radiology worklist upon exam completion.
  • Manual reporting using rich text
  • Edit previous reports and save as draft
  • Create your own report template and save for future use
  • “Customizable Standard Normal Reports” provides preformatted and approved dictation reports eliminate Radiologist wasted time.
  • Distributes reports automatically with email technology and shares report through web
  • With WEB-PACS a Radiologist may read exams from an Internet access location.
  • Report creation with patients images (requires PACS integration requires).
  • Affiliate and link key images to reports (requires PACS integration).

REPORT DISTRIBUTION

  • Distributes reports automatically with email and / or fax technology.
  • Allows multiple referral physicians per patient, per exam.
  • On the fly email

 

MANAGEMENT REPORTING

  • Track doctors performance
  • Evaluates productivity, billing, efficiency, , ad – hoc reporting.
  • Analyze key demographics, exam volumes, physicians’ contributions
  • Build management data in graphs, excel or preformatted report
  • Immediate access of data over the web
  • Provide management a tool to do planning, forecast and evaluate current data

 


RIS Benefits

 

AUTOMATION  

Eliminates labor – intensive processes

  • Automatically suggests available exam times, Multiple exams.
  • Automatic communication (fax and email) of dictation reports.
  • RIS demographic information automatically populates billing information fields.

WORKFLOW INTEGRATION

Hands hold each and every patient exam from beginning to end, from the scheduling to billing cycle.

  • Scheduling, check in, modality exam, dictation, typing/ voice recognition, report distribution and billing.
  • Worklist tracking provides current status of all exams throughout its process.
  • Management reports: productivity, billing efficiency, payroll, ad-hoc reporting.

EFFICIENCY

Automation and Workflow integration equates to efficiency.

  • Single point of data entry.
  • One system
  • Paperless environment
  • Automatic report distribution.
  • Immediate access by referral physicians via the Internet.

ELIMINATE HUMAN ERROR

Eliminates manual effort and data input.

  • Single point of data entry.
  • Data validation
  • Rule based scheduling wizard suggests available exam time and dates. Scheduler considers modality availability, specialized exams and exam timeframe requirements.

MARKETING EDGE

WEB enabled interface provides marketing edge to grow referral base.

  • Referral physician WEB access to dictation reports and key image viewing.
  • Upon completion, immediate transmission of reports via fax and / or email.
  • Combined with WEB-PACS also provides integrated access to exam images (call DCM Systems for details.)