Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Brigham and Women's Hospital

Physicians talk about the value of point-of-order scheduling.

Operational Solutions

Maximizing Quality and Asset Management

New Challenges

Managing expensive capital equipment resources to optimize resource utilization, while simultaneously providing timely patient care is a complex challenge. Today, radiology services face competition and a demand for transparent quality metrics, and physicians need simplified access to point-of-order scheduling.

Point-of-Order Scheduling

Replace error prone phone and fax processes with immediate, online point-of-order scheduling. Online enterprise scheduling greatly enhances physician productivity and presents hospitals and radiology groups with a new opportunity for market share growth.



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Once an order has been placed and approved, it can be scheduled immediately at the correct location and for the correct resource.

Point-of-order scheduling maximizes resource utilization and increases patient satisfaction by:

  • Maximizing the capacity of high-tech imaging equipment
  • Increasing appointment availability and reducing patient wait times
  • Providing enterprise scheduling for ordering physicians or their designates
  • Providing centralized scheduling by radiology service providers
  • Linking directly with Clinical Decision Support with pre-authorization if required

With Medicalis Operational solutions, manage clinical and financial risk, identify opportunities to extend resources, services, and schedules, and strategically increase capacity where it will provide the most ROI (return on investment). Migrate current departmental schedules into an enterprise schedule, with a controlled rollout to the community.

Publish open resource slots to your community or enterprise based on analytics data that identifies opportunities. Medicalis scheduling accounts for all constituents in the scheduling process starting with ED and inpatient, and then strategically releasing slots to the outpatient market.

Enhance Existing Centralized Scheduling

Evolve from a centralized call center to an immediate point-of-order scheduling enterprise while optimizing existing central scheduling managers. Offer ubiquitous access to your schedule through technology and push your schedule to the referring provider community through a self-service ordering portal connected to the EMR.

Maximizing Imaging Workflow

Medicalis provides innovative quality and productivity solutions from point-of-order to point-of-care. Medicalis tracks, monitors, and enables your organization to achieve all of the following without an expensive administration burden and inefficient tangential workflow impact:
  • Prior protocoling to speed up pre-exam processes
  • Communication between caregivers using dashboards
  • On-time, prepared patients
  • Departments notified when wait times reach service thresholds
  • Significant improvements on timely procedure starts
  • Publish unfilled inpatient, ED slots, or outpatient slots
  • Efficiently manage slot closures

Resulting in up to:

  • 15% productivity improvements
  • 20% asset utilization increases
  • 15% patient volume increases

Analytics for Improved Operations

Uncover provider and demographic demand patterns by tracking key analytics. Medicalis Operational solutions optimize the appropriateness of imaging orders while improving high-tech imaging equipment productivity. The Medicalis Analytics solution provides:

  • Detailed data to understand current clinical operations
  • Tools to analyze data to increase operational efficiencies
  • Resource utilization and slot utilization statistics
  • Statistics to pinpoint service delays
  • Wait time to next appointment and no-show statistics