RIS Concepts

Nov 6, 2006

Radiology informatics developer RIS Concepts of Miami will unveil its newest RIS offering, RAD-RIS, during the 2006 RSNA conference in Chicago this month.

The system features a client-facility portal enabling a radiology group's contracted facilities to manage their exam workflow using the radiology group's RIS. The addition of radiology group routing rules enables assignment of exams to individual radiologists and radiology subspecialists by facility, referring physician, and modality.

A client contract management feature includes management and tracking of reading activities by client, and provides invoicing reports for contracted imaging facilities. Invoices detail per-exam reading transactions based on contracted amounts for each modality or procedure type.

For practice administrators, a radiologist activity report feature tracks the ongoing reading activities of radiologists for use in workload balancing and radiologist payout calculations. Reports can be distributed via fax and e-mail to both the ordering imaging facility and referring physician, and can also be printed from the system by all users. In addition, a fax-on-the-fly application allows client facilities to fax reports from RAD-RIS when needed.

A referring-physician portal tool enables group clients to manage their own referring clinicians, and allows access to the radiology group's system as an imaging center referral user, RIS Concepts said.

The RAD-RIS product is a complement to RIS Concepts' enterprise-level RCI-RIS, according to the firm. RCI-RIS also offers a proprietary HL7 engine for integration with other healthcare IT applications.

By Jonathan S. Batchelor
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 7, 2006