Find your future in the history

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1 Find your future in the history

2 Is your radiology practice ready for the future? Demands are extremely high as radiology practices move from a fee-for-service model to an outcomes-based model centered on patient engagement: Provide lightning-speed turnaround times coupled with definitive, actionable reports. Minimize unnecessary imaging for patients while maximizing a radiologist s availability to engage with those patients and ordering physicians. Illuminate applications lead the way The intuitive search engine at the core of InSight delivers any radiology, pathology or lab report or group of reports in your archive to use for clinical analytics, chronic disease tracking, research and education. Deliver a higher level of care at a time of lower reimbursement rates. Mine the information in your EMR to manage population health. To be comprehensive requires access to the complete patient record stored across multiple EMR systems. To be actionable requires pinpointing the relevant notes, test results or reports. To be timely requires that this access be nearly instantaneous. Softek Illuminate gives you the quick, directed access you need to meet these new demands for patientcentered care. Illuminate is built to scale to the high volume of information stored in the electronic systems across your enterprise so you can quickly retrieve the documentation you need. Secure radiology s future value as you leverage the history stored in your EMR to help improve patient care and business practices. PatientView automatically retrieves and displays all of a patient s relevant clinical history, including clinical notes, at the point of read to improve your decision making and help you deliver actionable reports. Analytics is built on a multidimensional platform so you can easily view and drill into your radiology department s performance to improve efficiencies. ActKnowledge lets you set up work queues on particular patient populations to ensure they are receiving treatment and to track their progress. With I get a picture of the Illuminate, patient without having to log into the EMR or other system. Safwan Halabi, MD Senior Staff Radiologist Director of Imaging Informatics Henry Ford Health System Detroit, MI

3 Real-time information at your fingertips Evidence-based medicine makes a lot of sense as long as you can find the evidence you need. Illuminate InSight gives the entire radiology team instant access to any report in the hospital s radiology, pathology and lab archive. Our vendor-neutral, Google-like search technology breaks through the information silos across hospital data systems to give you a more complete picture both current and historical of your patients and practice. Providers, administrators and researchers are utilizing this information to improve workflow, increase patient outreach, improve safety and reduce costs. Data-driven decision making is essential for surviving in a value-driven model of healthcare delivery. What makes InSight unique? InSight Search delivers relevant results. Search the free text and structured fields of all the reports in your radiology, pathology and lab archive with our patented data-ranking algorithm engineered to deliver the most relevant, positive results, typically in less than a second. InSight s Advanced Search enables you to easily set complex search parameters designed specifically for medical information. For example, you can search for a particular age group, disease, date range, ordering or dictating physician, location, modality or specific scanner. InSight Alerts track patient follow-up, test results, quality issues and conformity with protocols. Clinicians can close the loop on pathology results and imaging follow-up, and administrators can gather information required for quality compliance and other certifications. You don t hunt down the data Alerts send the information right to you. InSight Bookmarks turn your entire PACS archive into an easy-to-access teaching and research file. Organize a library of specific findings compiled from your own data. Then save your files for personal use or categorize and annotate them for all users. Searches return the most relevant, positive results, typically in less than a second. InSight easily accesses your entire patient archive for comparison studies, research, patient tracking and more.

4 Know your patient at the point of read Illuminate PatientView is constantly working in the background, indexing your patient s information as it flows to the EMR. When you meet a new patient, the same click to open the study triggers PatientView s interface to load the relevant clinical documentation. Radiologists no longer need to interpret in an informational vacuum or waste valuable time in the EMR system exploring dead-end tabs and medicine refill notifications. Without having to log into the EMR, you can see your patient s clinical summaries, surgical reports, lab tests, prior imaging reports and related pathology diagnoses all with no clicks. Just hover over the note or report you want and read it in the viewer. You have immediate access to your patient s smoking history, problem list, medications, allergies, vital signs and more the critical story behind the image as well as information required to attest to Meaningful Use. See only the documents you need PatientView gives you two ways to filter documents to display only those relevant to you. Manual filtering. Use filters on individual patients to narrow the result list. You can pinpoint, for example, a note type, radiology modality, body part, procedure or date range. Use the search bar to locate specific wording such as cancer or appendectomy within any clinical documentation. Clinical history delivered to you Logging into different systems is no longer needed. For the patient with vague abdominal pain, you can see the lipase level and be sure it s pancreatitis. On a chest CT with nonspecific opacities, you can quickly suspect they are related to radiation therapy. On a follow-up CT for a cancer patient, you know the exact type, stage and previous procedures. PatientView links you to Illuminate InSight and ActKnowledge. Free-text search to quickly find a similar description on a prior patient for comparison. Set Alerts to be notified personally of pathology results or to track patient follow-up. Begin the monitoring process for a patient with a non-routine finding or chronic disease. With Illuminate PatientView, the full patient story comes to you, allowing you to streamline your workflow, make fast and accurate diagnoses, lower the need for additional testing, and provide valuable direction for patient care. You leverage your patient s history to deliver actionable reports and better serve your referring colleagues. Preset filtering. Easily configure PatientView to display only certain notes, radiology reports, and pathology and lab results when you open a new patient. You can configure and easily access as many presets as you like. No matter what your specialty, you can make sure PatientView displays only the patient history you need. Presets let you display only the patient history relevant to your current exam. PatientView automatically displays patient history all with no clicks. Just hover over the report you want and read it in the viewer.

5 Performance analytics to improve your practice Illuminate Analytics delivers easy-to-use performance metrics needed to advance your radiology practice in today s environment of increased oversight and pressure to maintain volumes while improving patient care. It applies innovative data-cube technology to the information available through the Illuminate InSight search engine. Business and clinical decisions are more informed by drilling into the previous years, months or days of data stored in your system. Illuminate Analytics delivers information in graphical formats that can be easily navigated, filtered and manipulated. You can instantly see the number and type of exams ordered by each clinician, number and type of exams performed on individual patients, volumes and turnaround times for each radiologist, modality and scanner usage, technologist productivity and so much more. Informed decisions lead to better healthcare Here are just a few of the ways that metrics accessed with Illuminate Analytics improve business practices and patient care: Specific modality volumes are tracked over specific time frames and facilities to tailor radiologist staffing, technologist staffing, resource scheduling, and even hiring and resource purchasing to fit the demand. Exam volumes and turnaround times are tracked for individual radiologists to determine if clinicians are meeting their productivity goals. Volumes are sorted by radiologist and body part to ensure radiologists are reading enough exams to maintain their subspecialty certifications. Turnaround times are tracked by modality and/or body part to identify outliers, correct problems and address patient relations. Exams are sorted by patient and time periods to see if the number or types of exams raise concerns about dosage or redundancies. Illuminate Analytics is a fact-based support system that allows you to produce comprehensive data reports, identify trends, find opportunities or expose issues based on a more complete data profile. Easy access to actionable information from your electronic patient records is your first step in the ongoing quest to provide the best patient care while maintaining the best business practices.

6 Easy tracking of at-risk patient populations Monitoring at-risk patients to help them stay as healthy as possible is a key component in outcomes-based healthcare. Illuminate ActKnowledge makes it easy to track the surveillance and follow-up treatment of atrisk patients whether they are suffering from chronic diseases or have just been diagnosed with an incidental or critical finding. ActKnowledge provides customizable workflow tools to prevent these patients from falling through the cracks in the healthcare delivery system. ActKnowledge is integrated with Illuminate InSight and PatientView to provide a seamless flow of information from patient identification to patient/ physician notification to continuing follow-up: Radiologists in the course of their daily workflow in PatientView use their normal dictation procedure to automatically move an identified patient into the appropriate ActKnowledge workflow. Staff members performing proactive patient searches in InSight can easily export their findings even an entire population of identified patients into ActKnowledge. Patients are placed in a work queue that corresponds to their disease state; then the work queues are accessed by staff members who contact physicians and/or patients, make notes to document their communications, and move the patient to the next follow-up queue. The integration with PatientView allows staff to check when follow-up care was received. Show your value and improve patient care ActKnowledge is a clear way for radiologists to show their value to the greater medical community. Without adding steps to their normal workflow, radiologists can be sure non-routine results are communicated personally to caregivers and patients and that follow-up procedures are in place. ActKnowledge can especially avoid communication breakdowns that occur with findings that don t require immediate action the ED patient whose film shows a lung mass that needs to be followed up in six months or the patient with a herniated disk whose MRI shows an abdominal aneurysm that needs regular monitoring. Whether a call needs to be made within 30 minutes, 3 hours or 3 days, you have the structured reporting mechanism you need to document your communication, continue your tracking and improve patient health. ActKnowledge automatically identifies non-routine findings dictated using radiology report templates to begin the communication process. ActKnowledge is being used to monitor patients identified through: Incidental findings, such as lung nodules or abdominal aortic aneurysms Lung screening programs IVC filter-removal programs Evaluation of chronic conditions within an organization s unique patient population

7 Save time and improve outcomes Illuminate is helping radiology departments at top academic and community hospitals in the United States, Europe and Australia to improve clinical outcomes, mitigate risk to doctors and departments, increase revenue and improve workflow. Clinicians Automatically view clinical documentation at the point of read essential for a timely, accurate diagnosis; lowering recommendations for additional testing; and providing more complete diagnostic information to referring clinicians. Access any comparison study in your system to confirm or rule out a diagnosis and avoid additional imaging. Correlate radiology and pathology findings to improve your understanding. Track the progress of questionable cases as you increase your involvement in patient care. Track patients to ensure they get clinical follow-up. Administrators Easily gather information required for compliance documentation. Be alerted of imaging quality issues to lower rescans and improve patient safety. Track utilization trends to make well-informed capital and staffing allocation decisions. Identify patient conditions and adverse events not found in discharge billing codes. Evaluate the outcomes of new quality initiatives. Academics Greatly increase scholarly activity papers and conference presentations to improve your program s quality and reputation. Build teaching sets and case series of comparable exams in minutes, not months. Receive real-time notifications when another patient meets criteria for your study.