(Booth 8537) Emageon of Birmingham, AL, will spotlight two RIS products in Chicago, the RadSuite RIS and Outside Study Gateway.
RadSuite RIS fully automates all radiology functions, including standard procedures and protocols, inventory management, mammography, and detailed management reporting, as well as the standard RIS functions. It's configurable by facility and individual user needs as it interfaces with other hospital systems to provide a hybrid workflow that can be driven by either radiology or PACS, according to the company.
For scheduling, RadSuite RIS offers multiple booking capabilities for unlimited rooms and procedures; quick look-up of prep information while booking; conversion to patient visit transaction with no double entry; printing of schedules by date, department, and room; and automatic time and exam conflict checking.
The software's patient master displays the comprehensive patient record, while a radiologist dashboard provides a single screen for all tasks. The transcription feature enables automatic creation of header, footer, and normal reports and allows for radiologist-specific and generic reports to be released.
The software also automates mammography reporting and the required letter-generation process, and it contains more than 208 pregenerated management reports. Web order entry and schedule-request capabilities facilitate online order entry for referring physician's offices rather than written orders or prescriptions. An automated appointment reminder contacts scheduled patients to remind them of their pending appointment. Finally, the software includes modules for inventory management, personnel management, quality control, and standard procedures.
RadSuite RIS is available as a standalone RIS product or as a RIS/PACS package.
Emageon's Outside Study Gateway (OSG) provides physicians with timely access to medical imaging studies performed by outside facilities by standardizing the process for hospital physician access to imaging studies performed at other facilities. OSG enables outside facilities to perform direct DICOM transfers to an Emageon proxy server in the receiving hospital facility's PACS network, providing for patient data and QC integrity checks to be performed by the proxy server, as well as auto-forwarding of the exam into the receiving hospital facility's PACS, according to the company.
OSG grants the ability to begin treatment planning before the patient arrives, offers easier access to medical images performed at the referring facility, and eliminates the need to import CDs. Finally, it can import images direct from any modality or other PACS systems.
