Radimetrics Enterprise Platform Crafted for the Smaller Institution

Bill Cavanaugh, Head of Global Informatics Strategy at Bayer Pharma Radiology (Whippany NJ), “Radimetrics, with our new Select Package, is a simple, affordable and scalable solution to help smaller institutions prepare for regulation while improving the performance of their radiology practices.”

Bill Cavanaugh continued by explaining that Bayer Pharma Radiology had introduced a new version of the platform that helps radiologists manage radiation exposure by mitigating inefficiencies and achieving reproducible quality. It is used alongside MRI to monitor contrast dose, and in CT imaging, X-ray, interventional medicine, nuclear medicine and mammography to monitor radiation dose. It comes with tools to not only monitor radiation and contrast dose from scanners and injectors, but enables the physician to manage patient dose history longitudinally.

“Now we have a version of the product incorporating the specific needs of the smaller end of the market,” said Mr. Cavanaugh, explaining some of the benefits of this new version of the product. “We have brought in all of the best practices from leading healthcare institutions to transform our contrast injectors into smart connected devices within the broader hospital ecosystem, bringing efficiencies and patient-centered care to even the smallest users.”

This latest version of Radimetrics also encompasses efforts to bring some of the best teaching practices from large teaching hospitals to the benefit of smaller practices. Registries are one of the latest initiatives to allow small institutions to benchmark themselves against what leading institutions. Mr. Cavanaugh cites the example of a registry being established in Germany currently. “In Germany, a new registry is under formation and we can potentially compare data from an institution in Switzerland with data from a leader in Germany, as well as connecting them with what is happening in California, for example. It’s about sharing best practices.”

Asked about the challenges associated with bringing a complex platform to the smaller institution, he added that it was a challenge that manifested in the art of software creation. Streamlining this complexity into a digestible format is done through the use of customizable dashboards that are preconfigured. “We’ve taken our learnings over recent years and simplified that down to five concise dashboards that are preconfigured with alerts that a small institution can use. If these institutions want to grow to more advanced capability then they can do that,” he pointed out.

One of the main benefits of Radimetrics is the radiation dose management and it provides data required by the upcoming European directive. Another key feature of the product is the level of quality that customers buy into. “Quality is not a one-time event but a continuous process,” asserted Mr. Cavanaugh. “Generally, in radiology people are being forced to do more with less—more compliance, more needs, more pressure to put more patients through the scanner. This product helps with efficiency.”

“It’s about quality, continuous improvement, patient safety and giving the physician time to focus on the patient because the software can be used intuitively and seamlessly.”

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