As a busy manager or owner of a thriving radiology practice, you have likely determined that using an old-fashioned paper-based system is hindering the success of your operations. However, being busy can make it difficult for team leaders to prioritize tasks such as the implementation of a new software system in the office. You don’t want to procrastinate when it comes to researching and purchasing Radiology Information Systems software, as well as getting your staff trained and accustomed to using it on a regular basis. Read on to learn why it’s time for you to prioritize your RIS software.

In a perfect world, medical providers would simply focus on delivering the best possible service to all their patients, and the financial aspects of their practice would take care of themselves. Happy patients and a staff with high morale would be sufficient to ensure an adequate revenue stream. However, some medical practices could do better with how they handle their business operations in terms of efficiency, denied claims, and unpaid claims. Here are the three biggest reasons why most medical practices typically fail when it comes to maximizing their revenue.

Here is a sneak peek into our whitepaper, "3 Vital Things You Should Know About RIS Software." 1. Connecting Your RIS Software to Your Referring Physicians' EHR/EMR Software Radiology practices will benefit immediately by using RIS/EDI software for such tasks as billing, management reporting, and scheduling patients. Modern RIS applications can do much more, however.

Not every patient will be polite, well-behaved, and pleasant during interactions with you and the rest of the staff at your medical practice. Some patients will have anxiety, pain, and fear about their condition or have something else going on in their lives that can cause problems. Your medical organization may see patients who fail to show up for their appointments on a regular basis, for example, or use abusive language or behave in an offensive manner. Staffers and other patients could also be contending with patients who continuously show anger or appear extremely frightened. Here are five tips for doctors and medical practices for handling patients who aren’t easy to deal with.

Savvy owners and managers of medical practices are always on the lookout for ways to improve all aspects of their operations. In the highly competitive medical industry, it’s important to use the latest technology and software to achieve higher levels of efficiency, which leads to improved patient care, as well as maintaining staff morale. If your organization has been relying on paper-based systems to manage your collective efforts, you will want to read on about how practice management software can improve your office today.

With the advent of increasingly inexpensive computer systems and cheaper data storage systems, radiology practices are able to work faster and more efficiently thanks to Radiology Information Systems software. Whether you are new to using RIS software or have integrated it into your practice and already have some experience, there are always new things to learn to get the most out of the application. Here are eight quick tips for using RIS software that you and your team will find beneficial.

Here is a sneak peek into our whitepaper, "RIS Success Stories: High-Volume Radiology Practice at Leading Edge of Patient Payment Collections by Leveraging Unique Flexibilities of ADS Software." ADS Workflow: Tracking & Managing Each Stage of the Patient Visit Using the ADS Scheduler module, a staff member assigns an appointment time to the patient and reserves the proper equipment room for each procedure. The real magic happens on the day of the appointment within the ADS Workflow module.

Regardless of whether your practice has or has not yet transitioned to EMR, you may still have questions about how they work. EMR enables easily controlled access to patient records. Now, instead of locking filing cabinets and needing to have the “key person” open them as needed, protocols can be established as to the levels of patient medical information (“role based”) each system user can or cannot access. One of the most important questions that you may be wondering about is what kinds of information you might find in electronic medical records.

There is a lot of talk these days about CMS’ impending required change from ICD-9 to ICD-10. The coming change, due to occur on October 1, 2015, is designed to let medical organizations take advantage of a greatly expanded and much more detailed code set. ICD was created and is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), as the codes are used to communicate medical information worldwide.

Here is a sneak peek into our whitepaper, "The Benefits of Connecting RIS Software with Your Referring Physicians' EHR Software." Learn how connecting your software can speed up your processes and save you money.