MEDITECH
Imaging and Therapeutic
Services
product brief
MEDITECH's Imaging and Therapeutic Services application expedites information capture and communication throughout the enterprise. Radiology, Mammography, and other departments that use textual result reporting methods benefit from streamlined routines and robust reporting capabilities.
Highlights:
The
application helps clinicians:
•
Ensure patient safety with help from flags, warnings, and rules-based
conflict checking
• Track patient progress in department
with dynamic on-line patient tracker
• Enhance communication with on-line
schematics, digital pictures, and scanned images
• Utilize bar coding to enter normal
results and track film with ease
• Enter reports faster with rapid access
to voice recognition
• Decrease report turnaround time with
streamlined electronic signature
• Improve patient retention with on-line
follow-up tracking system and automatic reminder letter creation
• Expedite access to exam images via
integration with PACS or other digital image system of the end
user's choice.
Standard
Features
Patient
Exam Coordination
MEDITECH provides robust tools for all of your order entry and
processing needs. Exam management features include:
• Dynamic on-line work-list providing rapid access to
important patient information
• Rules-based logic communicating exam-specific information
and warning users of procedure conflicts
• Schematic diagrams, digital pictures, and scanned images
enhancing communication
• Audit trail tracking all entries and edits to patient
information, ensuring confidentiality.
Solutions
to Ensure Financial Control
Billing is made quick and easy with routines to capture and track
charges. Tools to expedite and reduce loss during the charging
process include:
• Automatic charge capture at exam entry, processing,
completion, report entry, or electronic signature
• Timed charge capture
• Multi-patient batch charging and crediting
• Billing lists, patient billing activity, discrepancy list,
and other standard management reports.
Robust
Tracking Capabilities
Improve turn-around time and enhance access to information by
tracking and monitoring patients on-line. Features include:
• User- and device-specific sort ensuring accurate
communication
• The tracking and display of patient location, wait time,
priority, and procedure status
• Color-coded wait time and status, improving readability.
Dynamic
Result Reporting
Result reports are easily created by departments using diverse
tools. Options to expedite and improve result reporting include:
• MEDITECH's Text Editor with industry-standard word
processing tools
• User-specific coded comments to insert common phrases and
terms to expedite report entry
• Incorporation of schematics, pictures, digital photos, and
scanned pictures
• Automated print routing that can be easily adjusted on the
fly
• Accelerated creation of normal reports using bar coding
• Rapid access to voice recognition software
• Easily adjustable exam history questionnaire
• Automatic communication of abnormal results via worklist,
pager, printing, and e-mail.
Tools
for Patient Retention
Enhanced tracking solutions ensure patient returns for follow-up
visits. Solutions include:
• Tracking of Bi-Rad codes including result codes (Category
I - V), follow-up codes, and outcome codes
• On-line follow-up tracker for compilation of abnormal
exams and exams requiring follow-up
• Patient contact tracker to easily record communication
with patient
• Automated patient and provider letter generation as
determined by required follow-up.
Efficient
Electronic Signature and Tracking
Simplified electronic signature accelerates the communication and
accuracy of finalized reports. Functionality includes:
• Multiple report verification with a single PIN entry
• Single click signing, skipping, editing, and printing of
reports
• Electronic communication tool with transcriptionist
• On-line peer review by other physicians.
Comprehensive
Management Reports and Statistics
Reporting tools give managers access to important information in
a coherent and easy-to-use format. Some standard reporting
options include:
• Order reports, including cancelled, duplicate, overdue,
and incomplete procedures, as well as a daily log
• Statistical reports including workload and comparative
statistics
• Management reports including Final Day Sheet, No Show List,
Inventory List, Activity List, and Audit Trail
• Easily adjustable ad-hoc reporting
• Accuracy statistics automatically generated from captured
Bi-rad codes.
Film
and Material Maintenance
Record locator routines efficiently track all records lent inside
and outside of a health care organization. Record locator
includes:
• Check-in/out and reserve master jackets, sub-jackets, and
orders
• Automatically queued reminder letters for overdue films
• Dynamic tracking tool to simplify the location of film
• Bar coding compatibility, which expedites all film
tracking routines
• Tracking of film and other materials used during exam
Integration
Features
Using the Imaging and Therapeutic Services application in
conjunction with other MEDITECH applications offers many
additional benefits and provides enhanced access to information.
Some of these benefits include:
• Ability to schedule appointments from department or from
anywhere in the system
• Instantaneous communication of patient information to the
Enterprise Medical Record
• Ability for orders entered throughout the enterprise to be
transmitted automatically to department
• Flagging of lab information during order entry and
processing, enhancing communication
• Streamlined workflow with the ability for Pathology to
update Bi-Rad codes
• Medical Necessity checking and capture of CPT-4 modifiers
at scheduling and order entry
• Quality issues and outcomes tracking for patients and non-patients
with Quality Management.
Image
Viewer Compatibility
MEDITECH offers a flexible information system that functions with
the image viewing systems of your choice via a bi-directional
interface. The interface suite includes:
• Communication of status information from PACS, EKG, or
other image source
• Ability to link to patient-specific image from ITS and the
Electronic Medical Record
• Ability to invoke image during electronic signature, and
while accessing order or report
• Transmission of demographic, exam, and report information
to image viewing system.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com