What Avreo's Interworks means for Radiology
Avreo's interWORKS creates an environment that combines accepted business processes, next generation technologies and reliable connectivity methods to produce the first Real-time Radiology System encompassing image and workflow management. Avreo has created an advanced new generation of products and services that will transform the business of Radiology. We call this initiative InterWORKS, and its purpose is to create a totally integrated e-business that interacts with all members of the healthcare community in a secure and effective manner.
The driving force behind interWORKS is a fundamental shift in focus from disparate legacy or web enabled products and services to a unified offering of next generation web based products and services that work together to deliver information and execute transactions via the internet in a seamless yet very secure way.
What InterWORKS Means for You
InterWORKS will transform how radiology businesses operate. By bringing physicians, patients, transactions, information and images into a integrated and secure environment, InterWORKS will allow businesses to benefit significantly from an increase in efficiency and productivity, and reductions in the cost of ownership.
To get a sense of the opportunities that InterWORKS provides, let's look at today's situation:
* Average delivery time of reports and images to referring physicians is 72 hrs.
* Procedures are scheduled and performed without receipt of the proper information to ensure reimbursement.
* Most transactions require some manual intervention by an over worked group of Radiologist and staff members.
* InterWORKS resolves these issues by providing a web presence; secure access to information by physicians, patients, and business partners, and automation of the business process.
Web Presence: Secure, Competitive Advantage
This enables you to establish a web presence that transforms your radiology practice to a much higher level of interaction with patients, referring MD's, specialist and business partners. This results in a highly differentiated e-business that enables higher levels of customer retention, the potential to attract new business from competitors and overall a more efficient business system. This all spells success in the form of increased revenue to your practice.
Information: Secure, Universally Accessible
This will transform the way that your practice provides film-based information to your Referring MD's. The time consuming and expensive steps of printing expensive laser film copies and originals, assembling them into a folder, and then paying couriers to deliver and often retrieve the package from the Referring MD's will be eliminated. Instead, your customers will be able to view their patient's reports and images via a secure Internet connection.
The information will be available to your referring MD's no matter whether they are at home, at the office, at the hospital or even in the O.R. Since the information will be available from your web site, this highly convenient service will be a way to strengthen your relations with your customers and even possibly increase the amount of business that you receive from your referring doctors.
Automation: Secure, Seamless Integration
This enables you to extend the reach of your Radiology Enterprise to new business partners located in your town, your state or across the country; allowing your business to meet its expected growth. All that is required of the new partner is a DICOM 3.0 network, interWORKS provides the rest. Whether your partner is a rural hospital or a group of multi-modality imaging centers that are in need of Radiologist reading services, interWORKS provides all of the services necessary to integrate your business with theirs in a secure and efficient manner. InterWORKS is active behind the scenes collecting and transferring information between the parties to maximize operational efficiencies.
