For years, faxes and paper-based workflows were the backbone of radiology operations. But for Chesapeake Medical Imaging (CMI), the tipping point came in 2020. With growing patient volumes, increasing payer requirements, and mounting competitive pressure, the team knew that relying on faxes and manual data entry simply wouldn’t cut it anymore. In this article, [...]
A typical radiology practice is no stranger to shrinking reimbursements and tight profit margins. Smart providers strategize, seeking ways to boost their bottom line while prioritizing patient care and quality. That means it’s never been more crucial to forge lasting relationships with referring physicians. ScriptSender helps imaging providers deliver more for referrers—more accurate collaboration, [...]
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ramps up its Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program for advanced diagnostic imaging, many ordering providers are scrambling to figure out how to comply. CMS has established that 2020 will be an educational and testing period for the program, which includes imaging for MR, CT, PET, [...]
Billions of dollars later, the U.S. healthcare system is still running on fax. Most other industries have long moved on, but physicians’ offices and hospitals are still rife with printouts, blank pages, and illegible handwriting. That’s if the fax goes to the right number in the first place. Everyone hates it, but the fax [...]
Healthcare providers are searching for innovative ways to solve long-standing issues in the delivery of care. Whether incentivized by the government or forced by market conditions, they are understanding now, more than ever, that many traditional methods won’t work to keep healthcare viable. Models that had been acceptable for years, even decades, are now [...]
Chris Craft was cruising down I-84 in Connecticut when his eureka moment hit. Craft, CEO and founder of ScriptSender, had been ruminating on a pressing problem—one that confronts many CIOs in the imaging industry. How can an outpatient imaging practice foster collaboration with scores of referring physicians—when each has its own disparate IT system? [...]
In an increasingly connected, digital world, enterprise-level healthcare systems have a surprising method for getting data from Point A to Point B: faxing. Providers invest substantial resources to shore up what should be an obsolete approach to communication. Large medical groups that process hundreds of referrals daily take digital data, manually send it via [...]
The promises of healthcare nirvana are by now familiar: continuity of care, physician collaboration, patient engagement, value over volume, and of course cost-effectiveness. What may not be so familiar is the culprit that makes those ideals so hard to achieve, an underlying problem that causes persistent, systemic issues for every stakeholder in healthcare—the blocking [...]