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About Diversified Radiology of Colorado<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Founded by a single doctor in 1927, Diversified Radiology of Colorado (DRC) is\u00a0made up of 60 radiologists, who serve 88 hospitals and 57 clinics across 18 states.\u00a0Committed to providing high-quality patient care, DRC ensures that each study is\u00a0interpreted by a subspecialist to deliver the most qualified and informed interpretations\u00a024 hours per day, seven days per week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header><\/header>\n

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It doesn\u2019t matter where the study comes from \u2013 whether it\u2019s a rural access hospital or downtown Denver, a fellowship-trained subspecialist will read their study. For patient care, that\u2019s absolutely huge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chris McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, DRC<\/cite><\/p>\n

Sub-Specialty Focus Sets Practice Apart, Brings Unique Challenges<\/h3>\n

Based in Denver, DRC first adopted cross-enterprise imaging in the early 2000s. At the time, they were receiving a large number of orthopedic referrals and to meet the demand, elected to have their musculoskeletal specialist centrally located in order to interpret studies for multiple healthcare organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

While this provided high-quality reads for referrers, it forced radiologists to log in and out of multiple systems throughout the course of a day, which negatively affected productivity. As the service they provided became more popular, the more problematic the situation became.<\/p>\n

Another challenge arose from the demand for 24\/7 services. As the subspecialty business model evolved in the practice, maintaining the same level of service at night strained DRC\u2019s resources. Eventually, the practice had no choice but to outsource night reads in order to maintain their subspecialty focus.<\/p>\n

InteleOne\u00ae Provides Universal Reading Environment, Streamlines Workflow<\/h3>\n

As business challenges started to limit growth opportunities, DRC began searching for a way to streamline their radiologists\u2019 workflow. This search would lead them to InteleOne, which consolidates image and patient data from their customers\u2019 disparate systems into a single, unified workflow solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deploying the system meant that DRC radiologists no longer had to bounce between different PACS systems to read studies across facilities. Instead, they were provided single-sign-on access to all of their systems with federated access to images (including priors) from a wide variety of disparate sources. This not only provided a significant boost to productivity, but would also provide radiologists with greater patient context when interpreting exams.<\/p>\n

A 20% Efficiency Gain Enables Expansion of Service Offering<\/h3>\n

According to McMillan, revamping the radiologist\u2019s work environment has been tremendously beneficial in terms of productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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InteleOne’s single reading environment and single voice recognition solution increases our doctor\u2019s efficiency by a minimum of 20 percent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chris McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, DRC<\/cite><\/p>\n

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These efficiency gains have enabled a dramatic improvement in turnaround time. Whereas five years ago, DRC would guarantee that a study would be read in 24 hours, they now ensure a 30-minute turnaround for STAT read and four hours for a routine study. That said, their average turnaround time \u2013 for any type of study, across any modality \u2013 is currently less than 17 minutes.<\/p>\n

It has also allowed them to increase their study volume, which is double what it was 10 years ago, and reclaim their night read business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maintaining Quality Levels While Increasing Productivity<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Perhaps most impressive about DRC\u2019s efficiency gains, is that they\u2019ve been accomplished without having to compromise quality. Today, each study is read in-house by the group\u2019s most appropriate subspecialist. This includes night reads, as outsourcing them was no longer necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It doesn\u2019t matter where the study comes from \u2013 whether it\u2019s a rural access hospital or downtown Denver, a fellowship-trained subspecialist will read their study.For patient care, that\u2019s absolutely huge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chris McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, DRC<\/cite><\/p>\n

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The quality of interpretations is greatly enhanced by InteleOne’s ability to automatically pre-fetch prior studies from across the imaging ecosystem. The process of manually locating priors is always time-consuming and often incomplete. Through integration with other hospital systems, the solution can automatically identify and present prior patient studies, including those performed and\/or archived at another facility. Not only does the solution\u2019s master patient index retrieve possible matches that may use a different patient ID, but they are presented using the radiologists hanging protocol preferences. This provides DRC radiologists with an efficient way to see the patient\u2019s complete history, upon which higher quality interpretations can be made.<\/p>\n

By automating this complex process with InteleOne, consistency is maintained, the opportunity for error is minimized, turnaround time is vastly improved, and patient care is enhanced. \u201cWe were quite happy to finally find a product that would enable us to do this,\u201d said McMillan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Operational Benefits of a Cross-Enterprise System<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In addition to quality and productivity gains, InteleOne has provided DRC with numerous operational benefits as well. Foremost, providing reading services to such a large group of healthcare organizations creates enough volume so that each subspecialist has a full caseload at all times, without experiencing periods of downtime or having to read studies from outside their specialty.<\/p>\n

Also, using Intelerad\u2019s Analytics module with InteleOne, DRC is able to track key metrics across the enterprise, including radiology productivity, quality assurance, departmental workflow and system level data.<\/p>\n

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Intelerad Analytics allows me to measure all my information, time stamping all the phases of the workflow. This allows me to break down anything I want while providing me the flexibility to do any number of types of slices and dices on the data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chris McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, DRC<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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