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Image Flow is a powerful, comprehensive information management system for radiology practices and departments. It integrates every function that you need to run your entire practice into a single system, including patient information, scheduling, order entry, EMR, film tracking, mammo recalls and BIRADs reporting, digital dictation and transcription, automated report delivery, billing, internal messaging, document scanning, security auditing, a complete PACS interface, and so much more.
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qcMed is a web application designed to help medical practitioners improve their professional skills. It has three main components: Peer Review, Image Quality Review, and Follow Up Tracking.Peer Review is an important component of a medical practice's ongoing effort to ensure quality management and professional skill development. However, many practices neglect to implement a peer review process because it is onerous, time consuming, and difficult to administer. qcMed allows a practice to implement peer review process as part of your regular reporting workflow, with almost no effort.
While reporting a current study, a physician regularly reviews the prior reports and films that are relevant to the current study. qcMed takes advantage of the fact that you are doing this review anyway. It simply plugs into this process and presents a simple dialog prompting you to perform a peer review of the previous report, using a standard scoring system. The peer review is done in a matter of seconds and you continue on with your current reporting.
Radiologists’ feedback on image and exam quality will help to reduce inconsistencies in image quality from one technologist to another. Technologists use the feedback to help improve their professional skills. Knowing where staff may be having difficulty allows managers to plan and provide the appropriate training. Using QCMED as part of a complete quality improvement program will improve report and image quality and the overall reputation of the practice.
How many times have you been reporting a study and recommended further follow up at an outside facility because you see a suspicious finding, but you never find out the results of the follow up study. As a result, you are not able to determine if your original diagnosis was correct. qcMed allows you to flag the study for follow up. It will be added to a list of studies that a clerk in your practice can review on a daily basis. He or she will get the results of that follow up study from the performing institution and add it to your follow up case file. qcMed will then send you a notification email so you know there is new data to review. You log onto qcMed, view the results of the follow up study, and compare it to your original diagnosis. This allows you to improve the quality of your reporting, because next time you see the same type of finding you will know whether or not you were right the first time. As the final link in the feedback loop, qcMed allows you to add this case to a personal teaching file in Brightsquid, an online collaboration application that you can use to share information with your professional colleagues.
