Montage Launches Automated Recommendation Tracking for Radiology
Montage Healthcare's new system to track and manage radiology follow-up recommendations improves clinical care, reduces malpractice risk, and optimizes revenue for radiology practices.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Montage Healthcare Solutions, Inc. announced this week the latest software release for MONTAGE™ Search and Analytics, full of new capabilities that provide return on investment for radiology practices striving to enhance their operations. Building on a robust follow-up tracking capability, Montage's new Follow-Up QC module enables departments to monitor, analyze, and optimize follow-up recommendations made by radiologists. Also featured in this new release are several user interface enhancements, numerous new analytic tools, and powerful new QC and search features.
The new follow-up tracking tool was developed in response to recent literature identifying failed follow-up as a key medicolegal risk and an important revenue opportunity for radiology practices. Upwards of 71% of incidentally detected pulmonary nodules are not appropriately followed-up.1 Failed follow-up can lead to poor patient outcomes and massive malpractice settlements.2 Several recent studies published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology call for "better systems for appropriate identification and follow-up of incidental findings"1 and "additional safeguards that allow for better monitoring and tracking of patients with recommendations of further imaging to ensure appropriate follow-up actions."3 The Follow-Up QC module offered in MONTAGE 3.0 automatically detects and tracks follow-up recommendations made by radiologists. Montage's advanced natural language processing identifies recommendations without requiring changes in radiologists' dictation habits. Montage identifies and highlights overdue recommendations, thereby reducing the incidence of patients lost to imaging follow-up.
Montage values and proudly credits the input of its avid users for the rapidly advancing capabilities of its Search and Analytics product. Hundreds of the refinements in this new release respond directly to user requests.
- MONTAGE QC features natural language processing improvements as well as new algorithms to identify critical results, PQRS opportunities, and report mismatches.
- QC Analytics leverages the power of MONTAGE Analytics to enable users to analyze, filter, and explore the data produced by MONTAGE QC. Familiar Montage capabilities easily identify performance trends and quality outliers.
- Sequential Search enables complex queries across multiple imaging encounters, an essential foundation for outcome analysis. This new feature also helps practices identify opportunities to reduce length-of-stay for interventional radiology procedures.
- Search Analyze, long a mainstay of Montage's analytic capabilities, has become even more powerful, enabling users to drill down rapidly to gain additional insights. More Montage graphs are now clickable for quick and easy access to complex filtering.
To succeed in the transition from volume-based to value-based imaging, radiologists must address productivity demands while simultaneously adding clinical value to patient care. Montage Healthcare Solutions developed MONTAGE™ Search and Analytics, which provides the radiology productivity, quality, and safety improvement tools that will be crucial for ongoing success. Complex clinical quality questions can be easily answered, while the customizable analytics tools speed assessment of business performance and clinical quality. The derived intelligence enables competitive dominance through superior services and enhanced revenue, while enabling radiologists to be appreciated as valued participants in improved care delivery. For more information, visit: http://www.montagehealthcare.com
- Blagev, Denitza P., Lloyd, James F., Conner, Karen, et al., Follow-up of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules and the Radiology Report, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2014;11:378-383.
- Berlin, Leonard M. Failure of radiologic communication: An increasing cause of malpractice litigation and harm to patients. Applied Radiology 2010;39.1: 17
- Al-Mutairi, Aymer, Meyer, Ashley N. D., Chang, Paul, et al., Lack of Timely Follow-Up of Abnormal Imaging Results and Radiologists' Recommendations, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2015;12:385-389.
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SOURCE Montage Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
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