EMPI for Radiology Groups

The convenient and essential services provided by independent radiology groups must also be integrated with care providers’ systems. As part of an effective coordinated care process, NextGate EMPI ensures orders, results, scheduling, and billing are accurately associated with the right patient, and facilitates interoperability for data exchange. Benefits for Radiology Groups include:

Radiology Information Systems

• Eliminate accidental duplicate patient registrations
• Automate duplicate record clean up
• Provide faster and more accurate patient lookup
• Enable a comprehensive view of a given patient, including history
• Facilitate and improve discussions with providers, patients, and insurance companies
• Dramatically reduce manual reconciliation of exams
• Eliminate any chance of exam duplication

PACS

• Reduce manual reconciliation of exams
• Eliminate delays, re-reads, and addendums as a result of unlinked priors
• Prevent inappropriate merging of unique patient studies

Billing

• Eliminate multiple account numbers for a single patient
• Streamline the payment process for online portals and kiosks
• Reduce the effort to research and resolve downstream billing and customer service issues

EMR Integration

• Automatically match inbound electronic order requests between EMR’s numbering scheme and radiology group’s known MRN
• Facilitate automated filing of electronic results with the provider’s MRN
• Reduce reconciliation team involvement in validating and creating new patient registrations from provider EMR electronic orders

HIE Integration

• Provide an HIE data location registry as part of meaningful use requirements
• Orchestrate patient information across EMRs, IHEs, IDNs, RHIOs, and ACOs

Customer Service

• Provide faster and more accurate patient lookup
• Improve the scheduling process and experience
• Enable more informed clinical decision making with comprehensive data
• Increase provider and patient satisfaction
• Improve regulatory compliance and patient privacy
• Increase productivity through automation and accuracy